fatha

See also: fatHa, fatḥa, and faþa

English

A fatḥa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic فَتْحَة (fatḥa, “an opening”), instance noun of the verb فَتَحَ (fataḥa, “to open”). Refers to the mouth position when pronouncing the /a/ vowel. Doublet of patach and ptaha, denoting the open vowel in the Hebrew and Syriac scripts.

Alternative forms

• fatḥa, fatHa

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fæt.ħæh/

Noun

Examples
دَ (da):  /da/. دَا (dā) or دَى (dā):  /daː/

fatha (plural fathas)

1. In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line placed above a letter ( ـَ ) and designating a short a /a/. If the Arabic letters ا (‎أَلِف (ʔalif)) or ى (‎أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra)) immediately follow, it indicates a long ā /aː/.
2. The vowel designated by this mark.

Translations

in the Arabic script, the vowel point for "a"

• Arabic: فَتْحَة f (fatḥa)
• Azerbaijani: fəthə
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開口符／开口符 (kāikǒufú)

• Finnish: fatha
• French: fatha (fr) m or f
• German: Fatha n
• Japanese: ファトハ (fatoha)
• Kazakh: фатха (fatxa)
• Korean: 파트하 (pateuha)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەر (ckb) (ser)

  Northern Kurdish: fetha (ku)

• Malay: baris di atas, fathah
• Pashto: فتحه (ps) f (fatha), زور (ps) m (zor)
• Persian: فتحه (fa) (fathe), زبر (fa) (zabar, zebar)
• Russian: фа́тха f (fátxa)
• Tajik: фатҳа (fatha), забар (zabar)
• Turkish: fetha (tr), üstün (tr)
• Urdu: زبر (zabar), فتحہ (fatha)
• Uzbek: fatha (uz), zabar (uz)

See also

• Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kasra
• damma (ḍamma)
• sukun (sukūn)
• shadda (šadda)
• tashkil, taškīl

Etymology 2

Alteration of father.

Pronunciation

• (Geordie) IPA^(key): /fæðæ/

Noun

fatha (plural fathas)

1. (Geordie) father

Anagrams

• AFTAH, Fatah, aftah, hafta

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَتْحَة (fatḥa, “an opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ta/

Noun

fatha m or f (plural fathas)

1. fatha

Welsh

Etymology

From yr (“the”) +‎ un (“one”) +‎ fath (“kind”) +‎ â (“as”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaθa/

Preposition

fatha

1. (North Wales, colloquial) like

   Synonym: fel

   Dw i fatha bechdan heddiw. ― I'm good for nothing today. (literally, "I'm like a sandwich today.")

Adverb

fatha

1. (North Wales, colloquial) kind of