Connecting Characters

ل ‘L, l’

Letters with vocabulary examples

Final	Medial	Initial	Freestanding
ـل	ـلـ	لـ	ل
فیــل fil ‘elephant’	پــلـنگ palang ‘leopard, panther’	لـیمو limu ‘lime, lemon’	شغال šoγāl ‘jackal, coyote’

NOTE: The cluster of ل followed by الف is always the ligature لا; e.g., لاله lāle ‘tulip’, لادن lādan ‘ladanum’, لالایی lālāyi ‘lullaby’, طلا talā ‘gold’, etc.