English word senses marked with topical category "Cyrillic letter names"
Parent categories: Letter names, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Names, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 39 word senses
- ayn (Noun) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
- be (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б.
- buky (Noun) Name of the letter b in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.
- che (Noun) The letter Ч, ч.
- de (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.
- dje (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ђ / ђ.
- el (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Л / л.
- em (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter М / м.
- en (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Н / н.
- er (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Р / р.
- es (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter С / с.
- fita (Noun) The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.
- ge (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.
- ghayn (Noun) The Cyrillic letter Ғ in various Central Asian languages.
- gje (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ѓ / ѓ.
- hard sign (Noun) The Cyrillic letter Ъ/ъ, which in modern languages serves to denote a hard (non-palatalized) consonant.
- izhitsa (Noun) The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѵ, ѵ, formerly used in Russian to represent upsilon in borrowed words.
- ka (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.
- kha (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
- kje (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ќ / ќ.
- ot (Noun) The name of the Old Cyrillic script letter Ѿ / ѿ.
- palochka (Noun) A Cyrillic letter used in writing several Caucasian languages.
- pe (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
- sha (Noun) Alternative letter-case form of SHA (“cryptographic hash”)
- shcha (Noun) The letter Щ, щ.
- soft sign (Noun) The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant.
- te (Noun) The name of the Unspecified script letter Т / т.
- tse (Noun) The letter Ц, ц.
- ve (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
- ya (Noun) A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: Я, я.
- yae (Noun) The Cyrillic letter Ԙ (capital), ԙ (lower case), a ligature of Я and Е.
- yat (Noun) A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
- ye (Noun) The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
- yery (Noun) A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: ы (y), now usually simply called "ы"
- yo (Determiner) Pronunciation spelling of your.
- yu (Pronoun) Eye dialect spelling of you.
- yus (Noun) Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.
- ze (Noun) The name of the Cyrillic script letter З / з.
- zhe (Noun) The letter Ж, ж.
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