Etymology

tatweel

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Today it means: Synonym of kashida. Full definition →

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The story

Pseudo-Arabism, derived from تَطْوِيل (taṭwīl), for we were not able to find the term in the Arabic corpus, save rare computing contexts, which must already take over the Unicode designation U+0640 .

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