Beginner - Reply to Raed

I have come across a new letter it is like the Q but with three dots above it instead of two.
Can anybody help with these extra letters????

أردت : what is the root of this verb ? I only came across : اراد - type 4 verb : to wish -So I am a bit confused - thanks

Neill, I vaguely remember someone telling me that the ق with three dots stands for "g", was it Farsi maybe? Anybody to she shed some light?

Plop, I just checked in the Barron's, it is indeed the root verb اراد you found; Barron's translates it into "want", so it actually makes sense here: "If you want help..." :)

Mohamed and Ehab, is there an Arabic equivalent to "copy and paste" ??? ;-)

Cheers from Na7la

if there is a pair of three dots , close to each other , in quran recitation, it means you pause on the first and then do not on the second, or do not pause and then do pause.
These are things added to the osmanic codex, which was very simple as the ancient arabs knew it all by heart.

Confusing Berry... "a pair of three dots"? Meaning six dots???? On one letter? Could you send an example for this? Thanks a lot!

Alright, to clarify the (ﭫ) which is a letter similar to fa and qa (ف ق) except it has three dots. This is not an Arabic letter, it is probably borrowed from Persian, however, it is used sometimes in Arabic texts to give the sound (V), like the word (براڤو) notice the word (bravo) is not Arabic in the first place.

Plop, you are right, the root is (أراد).

Na7la, (copy & paste) in Arabic are (نسخ و لصق) (nas7' wa la9q).

Also to clarify what Berry mentioned, the pair of three dots in Quran come in two groups, each one consists of three dots, in a verse each group of three dots come in a position to indicate that pausing is allowed at one place but not the other, here is an example: http://quran.com/2
Hope I answered all your questions.

Question, does التي(should have two dots under last letter. Don't know why they didn't show up) also mean "which?"

MC

Apparently the two dots did show up and, you can even see them if you have eyeglasses with lenses as thick as pancakes. Which I do not!

MC

The pattern "Don't hesitate to + INFINITIVE" is extremely common in spoken English. The Arabic equivalent of this pattern might be re-used in a podcast where a teacher converses with a pupil. The teacher might say "Don't hesitate to ask questions" (singular imperative, masculine). And at the end of the podcast Ehab could repeat the imperative in the plural when addressing the Arabicpod community.

Just on the three dots thing - in Saudi there is a new telecom service called 'Go' - this is transliterated toقو (the qaf has three dots) - this is nationally advertised and the three dotted qaf seems to be well recognized

ghasfa and ghabargi.....are written with three dots in tunisian dialect.I was told it had to do with a heavy italian influence on those places, changing the sound of the letter slightly.