English word senses marked with topical category "Hebrew letter names"
Parent categories: Letter names, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Names, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 27 word senses
- aleph (Noun) The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
- ayin (Noun) The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- ayn (Noun) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
- beth (Noun) The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
- dalet (Noun) The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- gimel (Noun) The third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac).
- he (Noun) The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
- heth (Noun) The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- kaph (Noun) The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- koph (Noun) Alternative form of qoph
- lamed (Noun) The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- lamedh (Noun) Alternative spelling of lamed
- mem (Noun) The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- nun (Noun) The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- pe (Noun) The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
- pe (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
- qoph (Noun) The nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- resh (Noun) The twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). It is homologous with Greek rho and Latin r.
- samekh (Noun) The 15th letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician. Aramaic. Hebrew. Syriac. And many others).
- shin (Noun) The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- tav (Noun) Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)
- teth (Noun) The ninth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- tsade (Noun) The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- tsadhe (Noun) Alternative spelling of tsade
- vav (Noun) The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ו.
- yodh (Noun) The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- zayin (Noun) The seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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