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Stop the voice, keep the breath.
Also known as: Brief pause mark, Sin mark
The Qur'anic mark for a brief silence taken without breaking the breath.
Requires a short silence during which the breath is not released or renewed.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Occurs at only a handful of places in the whole text, each of them a point where running the words together would produce a different and unintended sense.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A small letter sīn — three short upward teeth on a baseline — set above the line, sometimes with the word saktah written in the margin.