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  2. Sindoor - Wikipedia

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    Sindoor (Sanskrit: सिन्दूर, IAST: sindūra) or sindura [1] is a traditional vermilion red or orange-red cosmetic powder from the Indian subcontinent, usually worn by married women along the part of their hairline. [2]

  3. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have case. Five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left. Originally, the alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants, but is now considered an "impure abjad".

  4. Paleo-Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters of Imperial Aramaic were again given shapes characteristic for writing Hebrew during the Second Temple period, developing into the "square shape" of the Hebrew alphabet. [ 15 ] The Samaritans , who remained in the Land of Israel, continued to use their variant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, called the Samaritan script . [ 16 ]

  5. List of Hebrew abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This is likely when the letters are in reverse alef-beit order, or when the abbreviation consists of a single letter followed by a geresh. For example, the year תשע״ד or [5]774 AM, or the ד׳ רוּחוֹת four directions. To indicate a double meaning, where both the gematria of the word or phrase should be taken, as well as the plain ...

  6. Shin (letter) - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic letter shīn was an acronym for "something" (شيء shayʾ(un)) meaning the unknown in algebraic equations. In the transcription into Spanish, the Greek letter chi was used which was later transcribed into Latin x. The letter shīn, along with Ṯāʾ, are the

  7. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

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    Note 1: The letters "א ‎" or "ב ‎"represent whatever Hebrew letter is used. Note 2: The letter "ש ‎" is used since it can only be represented by that letter. Note 3: The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk are different, however, they look the same and are inputted in the same manner. Also, they are represented by the same Unicode character.

  8. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet was later adapted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora (Karaim, Kivruli, Judæo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, etc.), and was retained all the while in relatively unadapted form throughout the diaspora for Hebrew, which remained the language of Jewish law, scriptures and scholarship.

  9. Niqqud - Wikipedia

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    In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.