Waw ( wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Arabic wāw و , Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו , Phoenician wāw 𐤅, and Syriac waw ܘ.
23-560: [REDACTED] Look up waw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Waw or WAW may refer to: Waw (letter) , a letter in many Semitic abjads Waw, the velomobile Another spelling for the town Wau, South Sudan Waw Township , Burma Warsaw Chopin Airport , an international airport serving Warsaw, Poland (IATA airport code) Acronyms [ edit ] Warsaw , capital city of
46-472: A mater lectionis for an o vowel, in which case it is known as a ḥolam male , which in pointed text is marked as vav with a dot above it. It is pronounced [ o̞ ] ( phonemically transcribed more simply as /o/ ). The distinction is normally ignored, and the HEBREW POINT HOLAM (U+05B9) is used in all cases. The vowel can be denoted without the vav, as just the dot placed above and to
69-470: A consonantal vav with ḥolam ḥaser correctly, the typeface must either support the vav with the Unicode combining character "HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV" (U+05BA, HTML Entity (decimal) ֺ) or the precomposed character וֹ (U+FB4B). Compare the three: Vav can also be used as a mater lectionis for [ u ] , in which case it is known as a shuruk , and in text with niqqud
92-1569: A description. With an additional triple dot diacritic above waw , the letter then named ve is used to represent distinctively the consonant / w / in Arabic-based Uyghur , Kazakh and Kyrgyz . / o / in Kurdish , Beja , and Kashmiri ; / v / in Arabic-based Kazakh ; / ø / in Uyghur. Thirty-fourth letter of the Azerbaijani Arabic script, represents ü / y / . A variant of Kurdish û وو / uː / (rarely used); historically for Serbo-Croatian / o / . Also used in Kyrgyz for Үү /y/. / y / in Uyghur. Also found in Quranic Arabic as in صلۈة ṣalāh "prayer" for an Old Higazi / oː / merged with / aː / , in modern spelling صلاة . / ʉː / in Southern Kurdish . In Jawi script for / v / . Also used in Balochi for / ɯ / and / oː / . See Arabic script in Unicode Hebrew spelling: וָו or וָאו or וָיו . Vav has three orthographic variants, each with
115-601: A different phonemic value and phonetic realisation: ו as initial letter: ו וּ ו וֹ ו In modern Hebrew, the frequency of the usage of vav, out of all the letters, is one of the highest, about 10.00%. Consonantal vav ( ו ) generally represents a voiced labiodental fricative (like the English v ) in Ashkenazi , European Sephardi , Persian, Caucasian, Italian and modern Israeli Hebrew , and
138-539: A letter with a ְ ( Shva ), and it does the ⟨ʔu⟩ sound. Vav in gematria represents the number six, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years , it means 6000 (i.e. ותשנד in numbers would be the date 6754.) Vav at the beginning of the word has several possible meanings: (Note: Older Hebrew did not have "tense" in a temporal sense, "perfect," and "imperfect" instead denoting aspect of completed or continuing action. Modern Hebrew verbal tenses have developed closer to their Indo-European counterparts, mostly having
161-405: A temporal quality rather than denoting aspect. As a rule, Modern Hebrew does not use the "Vav Consecutive" form.) In Yiddish , the letter (known as vov ) is used for several orthographic purposes in native words: The single vov may be written with a dot on the left when necessary to avoid ambiguity and distinguish it from other functions of the letter. For example, the word vu 'where'
184-463: A vav with dagesh and is additionally pointed with a zeire , " ֵ ", denoting /e/ ). In the word שִׁוּוּק ( /ʃiˈvuk/ ), "marketing", the first (" וּ ") denotes a vav with dagesh, the second a shuruk, being the vowel attributed to the first. When a vav with a dot in the middle comes at the start of a word without a vowel attributed to it, it is a vav conjunctive (see below) that comes before ב , ו, מ , פ , or
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230-481: Is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages , including English. It is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨w⟩ in the English alphabet; likewise, the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ w ⟩, or rarely [ɰʷ] , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is w . In most languages it is the semivocalic counterpart of
253-427: Is determined by prior knowledge or must be derived through context. Some non standard spellings of the sound [ w ] are sometimes found in modern Hebrew texts, such as word-initial double-vav: וואללה – /ˈwala/ (word- medial double-vav is both standard and common for both / v / and / w / , see table above) or, rarely, vav with a geresh : ו׳יליאם – /ˈwiljam/ . Vav can be used as
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#1732930623960276-423: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Waw (letter) It represents the consonant [ w ] in classical Hebrew , and [ v ] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [ u ] and [ o ] . In text with niqqud , a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations. It
299-443: Is marked with a dot in the middle (on the left side). Shuruk and vav with a dagesh look identical (" וּ ") and are only distinguishable through the fact that in text with niqqud, vav with a dagesh will normally be attributed a vocal point in addition, e.g. שׁוּק ( /ʃuk/ ), "a market", (the " וּ " denotes a shuruk ) as opposed to שִׁוֵּק ( /ʃiˈvek/ ), "to market" (the " וּ " denotes
322-538: Is spelled וווּ , as tsvey vovn followed by a single vov; the single vov indicating [ u ] is marked with a dot in order to distinguish which of the three vovs represents the vowel. Some texts instead separate the digraph from the single vov with a silent aleph . Loanwords from Hebrew or Aramaic in Yiddish are spelled as they are in their language of origin. [REDACTED] Voiced labial%E2%80%93velar approximant The voiced labial–velar approximant
345-448: Is the " oath ", by preceding a noun of great significance to the speaker. It is often literally translatable to "By..." or "I swear to...", and is often used in the Qur'an in this way, and also in the generally fixed construction والله wallāh ("By Allah !" or "I swear to God!"). The word also appears, particularly in classical verse, in the construction known as wāw rubba , to introduce
368-442: Is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic Ѕ , У and V , Latin F and V and later Y , and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U and W . The letter likely originated with an Egyptian hieroglyph which represented the word mace (transliterated as ḥḏ , hedj ): A mace was a ceremonial stick or staff, similar to a scepter, perhaps derived from weapons or hunting tools. In Modern Hebrew,
391-522: Is used to represent four distinct phonetic features: As a vowel, wāw can serve as the carrier of a hamza : ؤ . The isolated form of waw (و) is believed to be the origins of the numeral 9. Wāw is the sole letter of the common Arabic word wa, the primary conjunction in Arabic, equivalent to "and". In writing, it is prefixed to the following word, sometimes including other conjunctions, such as وَلَكِن wa-lākin , meaning "but". Another function
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437-404: The close back rounded vowel [u] . In inventory charts of languages with other labialized velar consonants , /w/ will be placed in the same column as those consonants. When consonant charts have only labial and velar columns, /w/ may be placed in the velar column, (bi)labial column, or both. The placement may have more to do with phonological criteria than phonetic ones. Some languages have
460-438: The left of the letter it points, and it is then called ḥolam ḥaser . Some inadequate typefaces do not support the distinction between the ḥolam male ⟨ וֹ ⟩ /o/ , the consonantal vav pointed with a ḥolam ḥaser ⟨ וֺ ⟩ /vo/ (compare ḥolam male ⟨ מַצּוֹת ⟩ /maˈts o t/ and consonantal vav- ḥolam ḥaser ⟨ מִצְוֺת ⟩ /mitsˈ vo t/ ). To display
483-753: The penultimate threat ranking for abnormalities in the Korean video game Lobotomy Corporation See also [ edit ] Wau (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WAW . 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=WAW&oldid=1232136659 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Airport disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732930623960506-499: The word וָו vav is used to mean both "hook" and the letter's name (the name is also written וי״ו ), while in Syriac and Arabic, waw to mean "hook" has fallen out of use. The Arabic letter و is named واو wāw /waːw/ , it is the 6th letter in the ʾabjadī order and the 27th in the Hijāʾī order, and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: Wāw
529-416: Was originally a labial-velar approximant /w/ . In modern Israeli Hebrew, some loanwords , the pronunciation of whose source contains / w / , and their derivations , are pronounced with [ w ] : ואחד – /ˈwaχad/ (but: ואדי – /ˈvadi/ ). Modern Hebrew has no standardized way to distinguish orthographically between [ v ] and [ w ] . The pronunciation
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