laam
Laam, or lam, is a letter of the Arabic alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant [l], the same consonant sound found in the English letter L. The name al-lām is traditional, and the letter’s form and usage have roots in the Phoenician lamed, part of the Semitic writing lineage.
In Arabic script, lam has four contextual forms: isolated ل, initial لـ, medial ـلـ, and final ـل. It is a
Beyond Arabic, lam is used in other languages that adopt the Arabic script, including Persian (Farsi), Urdu,
Computing and encoding details include the Unicode code point U+0644 for the Arabic letter lam. In most