the fifteenth letter of the Hindūstānī alphabet. Its sound differs from that of re by being uttered with the tip of the tongue turned up towards the roof of the mouth. It differs very little in sound from the letter ḍa, with which it is often interchanged, and in the Devanāgarī alphabet the same character represents both. in reckoning by abjad it counts to 200, the same as re. it is very rarely used as the first letter of a word, there being, so far as we have been able to discover, only one solitary vocable under this class, viz. ;
ڑوڑا
ṛoṛā,
m.
a stone, a fragment of stone or brink (v. roṛā). S.