kashida
See also: kǎshìdá
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian کَشِیدَه (kašīda).
Noun edit
kashida (countable and uncountable, plural kashidas)
- (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...
- (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.
- 1994, Apple Computer, Inc, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography
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Translations edit
a type of elongation used in some cursive scripts
elongation character
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Noun edit
kashida (n class, plural kashida)