kashida

See also: kǎshìdá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَشِیدَه (kašīda).

Noun

kashida (countable and uncountable, plural kashidas)

1. (uncountable) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.
   • 2008, Thomas Powell, CSS and XHTML: The Complete Reference:

     Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...

2. (countable) A character representing this elongation.
   • 1994, Apple Computer, Inc, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography

     Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas...

   • 2002, John Ayres, The tomes of Delphi: Win32 Shell API, Windows 2000 edition:

     However, there is no option for determining whether or not the Arabic Kashidas will be ignored; they will always be ignored in Arabic character sets.

Synonyms

• tatweel, tatwil

Translations

a type of elongation used in some cursive scripts

• Arabic: كَشِيدَة f (kašīda)
• Hindi: कशीदा (hi) m (kaśīdā)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: کَشِیدَه (fa) (kašīda)

  Iranian Persian: کَشیدِه (fa) (kašide)

• Russian: татви́ль m (tatvílʹ), каши́да (ru) f (kašída)
• Urdu: کَشِیدَہ m (kaśīda)

elongation character

• Arabic: كَشِيدَة f (kašīda), تَطْوِيل m (taṭwīl)
• Hindi: कशीदा (hi) m (kaśīdā), तत्वील f (tatvīl)
• Indonesian: tatwil, kasyidah
• Malay: tatwil
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: کَشِیدَه (fa) (kašīda), تَطْوِیل (fa) (tatwīl)

  Iranian Persian: کَشیدِه (fa) (kašide), تَطْویل (fa) (tatvil)

• Russian: татви́ль m (tatvílʹ), каши́да (ru) f (kašída)
• Urdu: کَشِیدَہ m (kaśīda), تَطْوِیل f (tatvīl)

See also

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Anagrams

• kadhais

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

kashida (n class, plural kashida)

1. shawl