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Shaddah
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<p>Shaddah is one of the <a href="/facts/Arabic_diacritics/7TAagmkr">diacritics</a> used with the <a href="/facts/Arabic_alphabet/hCA1a0xq">Arabic alphabet</a>, indicating a <a href="/facts/Gemination/SWW77Fxw">geminated</a> (long) consonant. It is functionally equivalent to writing a consonant twice in the orthographies of languages like <a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a>, <a href="/facts/Italian_language/YXsmvlQG">Italian</a>, <a href="/facts/Swedish_language/1DkSIXkH">Swedish</a>, and <a href="/facts/Ancient_Greek/LIK7NlUh">Ancient Greek</a>, and is rendered as such in <a href="/facts/Latin_script/7EWeJjUV">Latin script</a> in most schemes of <a href="/facts/Arabic_transliteration/A760zaoa">Arabic transliteration</a>, e.g. رُمّان = <i>rummān</i> '<a href="/facts/Pomegranates/m9aqRKUe">pomegranates</a>'. </p>