س

See also: ش, س࣪, and س-

س U+0633, س ARABIC LETTER SEEN ← ز [U+0632] Arabic ش → [U+0634]

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
س	ـس	ـسـ	سـ

ﺱ U+FEB1, ﺱ ARABIC LETTER SEEN ISOLATED FORM ← ﺰ [U+FEB0] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺲ → [U+FEB2]

ﺲ U+FEB2, ﺲ ARABIC LETTER SEEN FINAL FORM ← ﺱ [U+FEB1] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺳ → [U+FEB3]

ﺳ U+FEB3, ﺳ ARABIC LETTER SEEN INITIAL FORM ← ﺲ [U+FEB2] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺴ → [U+FEB4]

ﺴ U+FEB4, ﺴ ARABIC LETTER SEEN MEDIAL FORM ← ﺳ [U+FEB3] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺵ → [U+FEB5]

Acehnese

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [sin]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [s]

Letter

س (sin) (no case)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Acehnese alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters: حرف (haraih, harah) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Nabataean 𐢝 (š), from Classical Syriac ܫ (š), from Aramaic ש (š), from Imperial Aramaic 𐡔 (š), from the Egyptian 𓌒.

This letter stood for /ʃ/ in Aramaic. 𐢖 was not adopted into the Arabic alphabet because of the following considerations:

Proto-Semitic has three fricatives that became sibilants in descendant languages: ś, š, s. In Arabic ś gave /ʃ/, but š and s merged to /s/. In Old Aramaic all three sibilants were distinguished, and s was represented by 𐢖 / ס / 𐡎 while 𐢝 / ש / 𐡔 represented both ś and š. This orthography persisted in later Aramaic even to the time of the Nabataeans, when the pronunciation of ś merged with that of s /s/.

So when a scribe wanted to write the Arabic sound /ʃ/ from ś, he did so by using 𐢝 / س purposefully in order to stick to a letter form that looks the same in the cognate Aramaic words (where it represented /s/). But when he wanted to write an Arabic sound /s/ from Proto-Semitic š, he would defy the Aramaic spelling for this Proto-Semitic phoneme (spelled in Aramaic as ש / 𐡔 and pronounced /ʃ/) were he to represent this Arabic phoneme by the sign 𐢖 / ס / 𐡎, whereas Arabic-Aramaic word pairs with the Proto-Semitic s are – somewhat by coincidence – rare and there was hence only negligible pressure to employ 𐢖 / ܣ / ס / 𐡎, in total. So the impression was that 𐢝 / ש / 𐡔 / س is the most typical sign to write /s/ while the other possible sign fell out of use.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /siːn/

  • Audio:

    (file)

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س / س‍ / ‍س‍ / ‍س • (sīn) (no case)

1. The twelfth letter of the Arabic alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ز (z) and followed by ش (š).
2. x, unknown mathematical variable

Symbol

س / س‍ / ‍س‍ / ‍س • (sīn)

1. The fifteenth numeral symbol of the Arabic alphabet (traditional abjad order, used for list numbering), written in the Arabic script; preceded by ن (n) and followed by ع (ʕ).

See also

• Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي ^[edit]
• Wikipedia article on the Arabic alphabet
• Search for entries beginning with س

References

• Diem, Werner (1980), “Untersuchungen zur frühen Geschichte der arabischen Orthographie: II. Die Schreibung der Konsonanten”, in Orientalia (in German), volume 49, number 1, →DOI, pages 77–81

Etymology 2

Shortened form of سَوْفَ (sawfa).

Particle

سَـ • (sa-)

2. will (prefix indicating the future tense)

   يَقْرَأُ كِتَابًا، سَيَقْرَأُ كِتَابًا

   yaqraʔu kitāban, sayaqraʔu kitāban

   He is reading a book, he will read a book.

Synonyms

• سَوْفَ (sawfa)

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/, [s]

Letter

س (transliteration needed) (no case)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/, [s]

Letter

س (transliteration needed) (no case)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Chinese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/, [s], [ɕ]

Letter

س (no case)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad, written in the Arabic script.

Usage notes

• This letter is also used to represent Pinyin initials s- and sh-.

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /siːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (s) (no case)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Kashmiri alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ژھ and followed by ش.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	س
Cyrillic	С, с
Latin	S, s

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /siːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (s) (no case, Cyrillic equivalent С or с)

1. The eleventh letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ز and followed by ش.

See also

• Arabic script letters: әріптер (ärıpter) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ج, چ, ح, د, ر, ز, س, ش, ع, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي ^[edit]

Khowar

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /sin/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س (sīn) (no case)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Khowar alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ݱ and followed by ش.

Malay

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter, Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): [sen]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [s]

Letter

س / س‍ / ‍س‍ / ‍س (no case)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

Etymology 2

Malay cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : س

Shortened form of اسا, from Proto-Malayic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

Alternative forms

• esa
• ĕsă
• se (se-)
• sĕ (sĕ-)
• sa (sa-)
• să (să-)
• اسا

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sə]
• Rhymes: -sə, -ə

Numeral

س (Rumi spelling se)

1. one

Synonyms

• satu / ساتو
• tunggal / توڠݢل
• eka (eka-) / ايک (ايک-)
• ahad / احد

Derived terms

• se- / س-

Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /sin/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (sin) (no case)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Pashto alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ږ and followed by ش.

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [siːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [siːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [siːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [siːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sin]

Readings
Classical reading?	sīn
Dari reading?	sīn
Iranian reading?	sin
Tajik reading?	sin

• Audio (Iran):

  (file)

Letter

ﺱ / ﺳ‍ / ﺴ / ‍ﺲ • (sin) (no case)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Persian alphabet, called سین and written in the Arabic script; preceded by ژ and followed by ش.

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• Gurmukhi letter: ਸ (sassā)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /siːn̪/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (sīn) (no case)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Punjabi alphabet, written in the Shahmukhi script; preceded by ژ (žē) and followed by ش (šīn).

Sindhi

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /siːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (sīn) (no case)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Sindhi alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ز and followed by ش.

See also

• Arabic script letters: اکر (akharu) (script appendix): ا, ب, ٻ, ڀ, ت, ٿ, ٽ, ٺ, ث, پ, ج, ڄ, جھ, ڃ, چ, ڇ, ح, خ, د, ڌ, ڏ, ڊ, ڍ, ذ, ر, ڙ, ڙھ, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ڦ, ق, ڪ, ک, گ, ڳ, گھ, ڱ, ل, م, ن, ڻ, و, ه, ء, ي ^[edit]

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /siːn/
• (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (sīn) (no case)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Urdu alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ژ and followed by ش.

Uyghur

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /se/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س • (se) (no case)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Uyghur alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ژ and followed by ش.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /sí/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

س (transliteration needed) (no case, Latin equivalent s)

1. The twentieth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ر and followed by ش.