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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.
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 ...
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'.
Phoenician 12th c. BCE. Pahlavi. The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: 讛讻转讘 讛注讘专讬 讛拽讚讜诐), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern Canaan, also known as the biblical kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.
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.
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.
The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words. For example, the Hebrew name spelled 讬执砖职讉专指讗值诇 ("Israel") in the Hebrew alphabet can be romanized as Yisrael or Yi艣r膩始膿l in the Latin alphabet. Romanization includes any use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words.