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Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician k膩p 饜, Hebrew k膩p虅 讻 , Aramaic k膩p 饜, Syriac k膩p虅 軣, and Arabic k膩f 賰 (in abjadi order). The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek kappa (Κ), Latin K, and Cyrillic 袣.
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( 转 ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.
Gimel. Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician g墨ml 饜, Hebrew g墨mel 讙 , Aramaic g膩mal 饜, Syriac g膩mal 軗 and Arabic 千墨m 噩 . Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, except Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive [伞]; in ...
The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: 讗指诇侄祝志讘值旨讬转 注执讘职专执讬, [a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
Meaning Comments Examples 讛 the Before ordinary letters (i.e. excluding gutturals and 专 ) it is 讛址 followed by a Dagesh Chazak. 讛址诪侄旨诇侄讱职 hamelekh (the king) Before the weaker gutturals 讗 and 注 , as well as 专 , it is 讛指 . 讛指讗讜止专 ha'or (the light) 讛指注址讬执谉 ha'ayin (the eye)
Kappa (/ 藞kæp蓹 /; [ 1 ] uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive 习; Greek: κ维ππα, káppa) is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive IPA: [k] sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, K使 has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph.
K is the unit symbol for the kelvin, used to measure thermodynamic temperature (the degree sign is not used with this symbol). K is the chemical symbol for element potassium (from its Latin name kalium). Triangle K. In chess notation, the letter K represents the King (WK for White King, BK for Black King). In baseball scoring, the letter K is ...
Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician p膿 饜, Hebrew p膿驻 , Aramaic p膿 饜, Syriac p膿 堞, and Arabic f膩示賮 (in abjadi order). This article contains Ugaritic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet.