Kashida

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Kashida or kasheeda (Persian: کَشِیدَه, romanized: kašīda, lit. 'extended' or 'stretched' or 'lengthened'), also known as tatweel or tatwīl (Arabic: تَطْوِيل, romanized: taṭwīl), is a type of justification in written Arabic scripts, in which the line connecting letters is extended.

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