Kaph (also spelled kaf ) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads , including Arabic kāf ك , Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ , Phoenician kāp 𐤊, and Syriac kāp̄ ܟ.
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36-503: A hieroglyph depicting a door: The letter is named dāl دَالْ, and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: The letter represents a /d/ sound. The Phoenician dālet gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D , and the Cyrillic letter Д . Hebrew spelling: דָּלֶת The letter is dalet in the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (see Tav (letter) ). Dales
54-601: A non-sacred way of referring to God. Dalet as a prefix in Aramaic (the language of the Talmud ) is a preposition meaning "that", or "which", or also "from" or "of"; since many Talmudic terms have found their way into Hebrew, one can hear dalet as a prefix in many phrases (as in Mitzvah D oraitah ; a mitzvah from the Torah .) In modern Hebrew the frequency of the usage of dalet, out of all
72-558: A soft pronunciation ( rûkkāḵâ ) it is traditionally pronounced as a [ ð ] . The letter is very common in Syriac as it is often attached to the beginning of words as the relative pronoun . Daled/dolath is always written with a point below it to distinguish it from the letter resh ( ܪ ), which is identical apart from having a point above. As a numeral, dalad/dolath stands for the number four. With various systems of dots and dashes, it can also stand for 4,000 and 40,000. In set theory ,
90-401: Is كِتَابَك kitābak and feminine "your book" كِتَابِك kitābik . Hebrew spelling: כַּף The letter kaf is one of the six letters that can receive a dagesh kal. The other five are bet , gimel , daleth , pe , and tav (see Hebrew alphabet for more about these letters). There are two orthographic variants of this letter that alter the pronunciation: When
108-414: Is spoken. Dalet can receive a dagesh , being one of the six letters that can receive Dagesh Kal (see Gimel). There are minor variations to this letter's pronunciation, such as In addition, in modern Hebrew, the combination ד׳ (dalet followed by a geresh ) is used when transcribing foreign names to denote /ð/ . In gematria , dalet symbolizes the number four. The letter dalet, along with
126-632: Is still used by many Ashkenazi Jews and daleth by some Jews of Middle-Eastern background, especially in the Jewish diaspora . In some academic circles, it is called daleth , following the Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. It is also called daled . The ד like the English D represents a voiced alveolar stop . Just as in English, there may be subtle varieties of the sound that are created when it
144-566: Is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Arabic dāl د , Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Hebrew dālet ד , Phoenician dālt 𐤃 and Syriac dālaṯ ܕ. Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ( [d] ). The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script , probably called dalt "door" ( door in Modern Hebrew is delet ), ultimately based on
162-653: Is the only Hebrew letter that can take a vowel in its word-final form, which is pronounced after the consonant, that vowel being the qamatz . In gematria , kaph represents the number 20. Its final form represents 500, but this is rarely used, tav and qoph (400+100) being used instead. As a prefix , kaph is a preposition : ʾ b g d h w z ḥ ṭ y k l m n s ʿ p ṣ q r š t Daleth Dalet ( dāleth , also spelled Daleth or Daled )
180-529: The Greek kappa (Κ), Latin K , and Cyrillic К . Kaph is thought to be derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew , kaph כף means "palm" or "grip"), though in Arabic the a in the name of the letter (كاف) is pronounced longer than the a in the word meaning "palm" (كَف). The letter is named كاف kāf /kaːf/ , and it is written in several ways depending on its position in
198-544: The He (and very rarely Gimel ) is used to represent the Names of God in Judaism . The letter He is used commonly, and the dalet is rarer. A good example is the keter (crown) of a tallit , which has the blessing for donning the tallit , and has the name of God usually represented by a dalet. A reason for this is that He is used as an abbreviation for HaShem "The Name" and the dalet is used as
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#1732855330684216-458: The fixed expression كَذٰلِك /kaðaːlik/ "like so, likewise." When adjoined at the end of a word, kāf is used as a possessive suffix for second-person singular nouns (feminine taking kāf-kasrah كِ , /ki/ and masculine kāf-fatḥah كَ /ka/ ); for instance, كِتَاب kitāb ("book") becomes كِتَابُكَ kitābuka ("your book", where the person spoken to is masculine) كِتَابُكِ kitābuki ("your book", where
234-544: The kaph has a "dot" in its center, known as a dagesh , it represents a voiceless velar plosive ( /k/ ). There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used. When this letter appears as כ without the dagesh ("dot") in its center it represents [ χ ] , like the ch in German "Bach", or [ x ] , like ch in Scottish English " loch ". In modern Israeli Hebrew
252-471: The letter heth is often pronounced the same way. However, Mizrahi Jews and Israeli Arabs have differentiated between these letters as in other Semitic languages. If the letter is at the end of a word the symbol is drawn differently. However, it does not change the pronunciation or transliteration in any way. The name for the letter is final kaf ( kaf sofit ). Four additional Hebrew letters take final forms: mem , nun , pei and tsadi . Kaf/khaf
270-460: The letters, is 2.59%. [REDACTED] In the Syriac alphabet , the fourth letter is ܕ — dolath in western pronunciation, dalath and daled in eastern pronunciation ( ܕܵܠܵܬ ). It is one of six letters that represents two associated sounds (the others are bet , gimel , kaph , pe and taw ). When daled/dolath has a hard pronunciation ( qûššāyâ ) it is a [ d ] . When it has
288-410: The person spoken to is feminine). At the ends of sentences and often in conversation the final vowel is suppressed, and thus كِتَابُك kitābuk ("your book"). In several varieties of vernacular Arabic, however, the kāf with no harakat is the standard second-person possessive, with the literary Arabic harakah shifted to the letter before the kāf : thus masculine "your book" in these varieties
306-463: The title KOF . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KOF&oldid=874370093 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kaph The Phoenician letter gave rise to
324-510: The word. There are four variants of the letter, In Arabic, kāf , when used as a prefix كَـ ka , functions as a comparative preposition ( أداة التشبيه , such as مِثْل /miθl/ or شَبَه /ʃabah/ ) and can carry the meaning of English words "like" , "as" , or "as though" . For example, كَطَائِر ( /katˤaːʔir/ ), means "like a bird" or "as though a bird" (as in Hebrew, above) and attached to ذٰلِك /ðaːlik/ "this, that" forms
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