Samekh
Sign in to saveSamekh or samech is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ , Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ. Samekh is the only letter of the Semitic abjad that has no surviving descendant in the Arabic alphabet; however, it was present in the Nabataean alphabet, the Arabic alphabet's immediate predecessor, as the letter simkath , which was related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪏 and South Arabian . The numerical value of samekh is 60.
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Sâmeque, sameque, samekh (ס), é a décima-quinta letra de vários abjads semíticos, assim como o samekh do alfabeto árabe e o 'ʾsamek do alfabeto fenício. Samekh é uma letra fenícia. Deu origem a letra grega Xi, e é possivelmente antepassado da letra X.
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