This letter is not used in Kurdish spelling.

ckb.orth.arabic-only-letter · Warning · Spelling standard

ث ذ ص ض ط ظ ء belong to Arabic. Loanwords are written in Kurdish with the letters for their Kurdish sounds. Names may keep their own spelling.

Examples

Wrong	Right
ثەورە	سەورە
صەد	سەد

Lessons

• Lesson 23: The written standard and common errors

Related rules

• This letter is Arabic or Persian. Use the Kurdish letter.
• Sorani writes this with its own punctuation or digits.
• This letter is doubled.
• A word starts with ڕ, not ر.
• A word cannot start with a bare vowel: write ئ first.
• The vowel ە is written here as ه.