Meaning of kashida | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated like a string rather than separated by spaces.
   uncountable
2. A character representing this elongation.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...”

“Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas...”

“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.”

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