Arabic Triple Dot Punctuation Mark

It ends an Ajami sentence. Ajami writes African languages such as Hausa, Wolof, Fulani, and Mandinka in Arabic script. This Ajami period may be replaced by a plain period in editions using a wider Latin-style punctuation set.

A documented example appears in a 1929 Fulani-Hausa text; the wider Hausa Ajami record reaches back to the seventeenth century, which dates the writing tradition, not this mark. Its three-dot arrangement resembles the dot placement on Arabic letters such as ث and ش; that visual likeness does not establish a historical link.