(a. f. h. a.) : “ti” harfinin bir adı. tâ-i mühmele : noktasız ti [“zı” dan ayırmak için bu ad verilmiştir]

sıf. ar. [tanz’dan imb.] Herkesle eğlenen, müstehzî.

vulg. tı, The nineteenth letter of the Turkish and Persian alphabets, and sixteenth of the Arabic. Its phonetic value in Arabic words and Persian compounds of them, and in some Turkish words, is that of a hard t. In other Turkish words it has the value of a hard d, but always has the value of t when found at the end of a word; also whenever it is followed by an esere vowel it has the value of t. In words of foreign origin, ط is often used instead of ت . Europeans sometimes represent the ط by the combination th; but there is no valid reason for this.The numerical value of this letter is 9. It is reduplicated in pronunciation when it follows the Arabic definite article آل as; كتاب الطلاق kitabü’t-talâk.In Arabic derivation, when the ط is the initial radical or a word, the servile ت of the eighth form is changed into ط and the two letters ط thus resulting are combined into one, reduplicated in pronunciation; as; طلع اطلاع، ittilâ‘ مطلع muttali‘;اطراد طرد، ittirâd, مطرد muttarid.