undotted
English
Etymology
un- + dotted
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Adjective
undotted (not comparable)
- Lacking dots
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII,
- […] nothing save the limitless expanse of ocean undotted by a solitary sail stretched out before me.
- 2006, Harald Motzki, "Alternative Accounts of the Qur’ān's formation" in The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed., Cambridge University Press, p. 69,
- Luxenberg then returns to the undotted form (rasm) of the word to determine whether another reading (dotting) of it produces an Arabic or Aramaic word or root that makes more sense.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII,
Usage notes
- Used especially to describe forms of the Arabic script.