dalet
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Dalet (, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ' 𐤃, Hebrew , Aramaic ' 𐡃, Syriac '''' ܕ, and Arabic (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive (). It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪕, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Arabic ''dāl''
- Phoenician
- Aramaic
- Hebrew dalet
- Variations
- Significance
- Syriac daled/dolath
- Other uses
- Mathematics
- Character encodings
- See also
- References
- External links
Dalet (, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ' 𐤃, Hebrew , Aramaic ' 𐡃, Syriac '''' ܕ, and Arabic (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive (). It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪕, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called '' (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door: O31
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