ZĀL

د ڈ ذ

Urdu Letter	Letter Name	Hindi Equivalent	Teacher
ذ	ZĀL	ज़	Teacher Icon

Sounds

ZĀL sounds like the English “z”.

ZĀL is one of the Urdu letters for the “z” sound. The other letters for the “z” sound are: ZAY (ز), ZWĀD (ض, and ZOE (ظ). You must learn which one to use. They are not interchangeable.

Forms

	Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
Basic Forms	نذ	Use Final	Use Detached	ذ
In Context	نذدیک	Use Final	Use Detached	ذرا
Write in Context	fill-in			fill-in

Connections

ZĀL is a breaker: no letter can be connected after it. Thus DĀL has only two forms: a detached and a final form:

When ZĀL appears at the beginning of a word, it will be in its detached form.	ذرا	zarā
When ZĀL appears after another breaker, it will be in its detached form.	اذان	azān
When ZĀL appears after a non-breaker, it will be in its final form.	جذبات	jazbāt

Note that final ZĀL looks a lot like detached ZAY, but you won’t confuse the two because final ZĀL is always connected to the preceding letter and detached ZAY is never connected to the preceding letter.

Additional Examples of ذ

Final	Medial	Initial	Detached
جذ			ذلیل
مغذ			ذوجہ