Shada (Arabic شَدَّةٌ šaddatun "[sign of] emphasis", also called by the verbal noun to the same root, Tashdid تشديد tašdīdun "emphasis"), is one of the diacritics (Harakat) used with the Arabic alphabet, marking a long consonant (geminate). It is thus functionally equivalent to writing a consonant twice in the orthographies of languages like Latin, Italian, Swedish and Ancient Greek, and thus it is rendered in Latin script in most schemes of Arabic transliteration, e.g. رُمَّان = rummān "pomegranate".