kashida

kashida
a) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.

Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...

b) A character representing this elongation.

Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas...


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