Nastaleeq | Name | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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alif |
Example | Itrans |
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pomegranate | anaar |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note: letters following alif do never connect
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | |
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Alif madda |
Example | Itrans |
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eye | aa.Nkh |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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bay |
Example | Itrans |
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goat | bak(a)rii |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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pay |
Example | Itrans |
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pencil | pensil |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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tay |
Example | Itrans |
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butterfly | tit(a)lii |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 2: some people call this a soft t.
Note 3: this is the "most common letter" to represent a dental t in Urdu.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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Tay |
Example | Itrans |
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cap | Topii |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This is a retroflex t, you should curl your tong a bit upwards when pronouncing it.
Note 2: Notice the retroflex sign, which is a small version of letter 22
Note 3: Some people call this a hard t
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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say |
Example | Itrans |
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fruit | samar |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: Samar with the meaning of fruit is a real Urdu word which stems from Arabic. The word samar also exists in Hindi but with a different meaning: war or battle, this meaning comes from Sanskrit.
Note 2: There are remarkably few words in Urdu with this s.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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jeem |
Example | Itrans |
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shoe | juutaa |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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chay |
Example | Itrans |
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moon | caa.Nd |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note: notice the similarity in appearance of the candrabindu-sign in the Hindi-script and the dotted n in the Urdu-script.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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hay |
Example | Itrans |
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hookah (device to smoke tobacco using water) | huqqaa |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: the little omega-shaped symbol performs the doubling of the q, this phenomenon is called tashdid. The symbol itself is called shad.
Note 2: This letter occurs only in words of Arabic origin.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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Khay |
Example | Itrans |
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rabbit | Kar(a)gosh |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note: This letter is pronounced back in the throat.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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daal |
Example | Itrans |
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door | dar(a)vaazaa |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This letter never connects to the following letter.
Note 2: Some people call this a soft d
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Daal |
Example | Itrans |
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bucket | Dol |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This letter never connects to the following letter.
Note 2: Notice the retroflex sign, which is a small version of letter 22
Note 3: Some people call this a hard d
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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zaal |
Example | Itrans |
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stock (something hoarded) | zaKiiraa |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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ray |
Example | Itrans |
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king | raajaa |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This letter never connects to the following letter.
Note 2: Notice the difference in position to the main line of writing with the 11th letter (daal).
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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Ray |
Example | Itrans |
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boy | la.Dkaa |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This letter never connects to the following letter.
Note 2: Notice the difference in position to the main line of writing with letter 12 (Daal).
Note 3: This is a retroflex r. In the Itrans-system this is written as a D preceded by a dot.
Note 4: Words in Urdu never begin with this letter, that's why the example here has the letter in the middle position.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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zay |
Example | Itrans |
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poison | zahar |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This letter never connects to the following letter.
Note 2: Notice the difference in position to the main line of writing with letter 13 (zaal).
Note 3: This is "the most common letter" to represent a z in Urdu.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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zhay |
Example | Itrans |
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example | exampleitrans |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note 1: This letter never connects to the following letter.
Note 2: This letter is rarely used in Urdu ocurring mostly in Persian loanwords.
Note 3: Pronounce this letter like the s in pleasure.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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seen |
Example | Itrans |
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vegetable | sabzii |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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Note: This is the "most common letter" to represent an s-sound in Urdu.
Nastaleeq | Pronounced | Final | Medial | Initial | |
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sheen |
Example | Itrans |
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alcohol | sharaab |
Devanagari | Nastaleeq |
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