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Dotted dhal or dal-i mu'ajjam (دال معجم, literally "Persianized dal") refers to the Arabic letter dhal (ذ).
More specifically, it also refers to a feature of the early forms of the New Persian language and a practice followed by its writers, who used the letter dhal (ذ), pronounced like th in the English word mother, in lieu of dal (د) in middle of the word when the dal is preceded and followed by a vowel, or when dal was in the final position and preceded by a vowel.
References
- The rule is described in an Arabic poem by Zahir-al-Din Faryabi.
- Forbes, Duncan (1862). A Grammar of the Persian Language: To which is Added a Selection of Easy Extracts for Reading, Together with a Vocabulary, and Translations. W.H. Allen. p. 151.
Literature
- Fritz Meier: Aussprachefragen des älteren neupersisch. In: Oriens, Band 27, Nummer 70, Basel 1981. doi:10.2307/1580565, S. 103 ff.