Hebrew word senses marked with topical category "Letter names"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Names, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 32 word senses
- אלפא (Noun) alpha (the name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta)
- אל״ף (Noun) aleph, alef (the first letter of the Hebrew script)
- בטא (Noun) beta (the second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ))
- ביתא (Noun) alternative form of בֵּטָא
- בי״ת (Noun) Beth, Bet (the second letter in Hebrew script and other Semitic scripts).
- גימ״ל (Noun) gimel (the third letter of the Hebrew script and other Semitic scripts)
- גמא (Noun) gamma (the third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ))
- דלתא (Noun) delta (the fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ)
- דל״ת (Noun) Dalet (fourth letter in Hebrew script and other Semitic scripts)
- ה״א (Noun) hei, hey (the fifth letter of the various Semitic alphabets including Hebrew)
- וי״ו (Noun) Vav, waw (the sixth letter of various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- זיתא (Noun) zeta (the sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ (Z), ζ (z)) preceded by epsilon (Ε (E), ε (e)) and followed by eta, (Η (I), η (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ (W), ϝ (w)))
- זי״ן (Noun) zayin, zain, zayn, zay (the seventh letter of various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- חי״ת (Noun) khet, chet, kheth, cheth, het, heth (the eighth (8th) letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- טי״ת (Proper name) tet, teth (the ninth letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- יו״ד (Noun) yod, yud, yodh (the tenth letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- כי (Noun) chi (the twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets)
- כפא (Noun) Alternative form of קָפָּא
- כ״ף (Noun) kaf, kaph (the 11th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- למ״ד (Noun) lamed, lamedh (the 12th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- מ״ם (Noun) mem (the 13th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- נו״ן (Noun) nun (the 14th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- סמ״ך (Noun) samekh (the 15th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- עי״ן (Noun) ayin (the 16th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- ע׳ין (Noun) ghayn (the Arabic letter غ)
- פאי (Noun) excessive spelling of פַּי
- פי (Proper name) phi (Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph")
- פ״א (Noun) pe, pey (the 17th letter of the various Semitic alphabets including Hebrew)
- צדיק (Noun) tsade (צ), the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- צד״י (Noun) tsade (the 18th letter of the various Semitic alphabets including Hebrew)
- קו״ף (Noun) qoph (the 19th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
- רי״ש (Noun) resh (the 20th letter of the various Semitic scripts, including Hebrew)
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