Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth...

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...

letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, Υʹ has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw . The name of the letter was...

(pronounced /ˈɛf/), and the plural is efs. The origin of 'F' is the Semitic letter waw that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically it originally probably...

[o] or [u], a waw-hamza letter (ؤ) is used and is marked with one of the five diacritics. There no longer is a need to add a waw letter (و) to mark the...

was turned into [o] (Ο, omicron); and the letter for /h/ (he) was turned into [e] (Ε, epsilon). A doublet of waw was also borrowed as a consonant for [w]...

masculine form respectively. The oldest direct ancestor of the letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W...

vowel [u]. In Greek, two letters were adapted from the Phoenician waw. The letter was adapted, but split in two, with Digamma or wau ⟨Ϝ⟩ being adapted...

Semitic letter Waw, from which the following symbols originally derive: U : Latin letter U V : Latin letter V Ⱳ ⱳ : W with hook Ꝡ ꝡ : Latin letter VY Ꟃ ꟃ :...

in the middle position unless in waw if that letter is preceded by a non-joiner letter; then, it is seated above waw. Hamza is also seated when written...

Ypsilonien(ne)s, from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y, which originated from the Semitic letter 'waw. Y is situated 50 kilometres...

zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but was placed near the end of the Greek alphabet...

Balochi. ۏ Cappi Wà or Wāw letter with a dot added on it And also in standard Balochi, the letter ڑ is merged with the letter ڈ In the table below, you...

conjunctive waw or vav conjunctive (Hebrew: ו' החיבור vav hakhibur) is the coordinating conjunction meaning 'and' in Hebrew, spelled with the letter vav. It...

ve pequeña, ve chica or ve labiodental. The letter ⟨v⟩ ultimately comes from the Phoenician letter waw by way of ⟨u⟩. During the Late Middle Ages, two...

(Also, the "W" can be converted into a "U" or "V", since the Hebrew letter ו waw writes either a [w] consonant sound—later on, pronounced [v]—or a long...

or waw-consecutive (Hebrew: וי״ו ההיפוך) is a grammatical construction in Biblical Hebrew. It involves prefixing a verb form with the letter waw in order...

village in Óbidos, Portugal municipality waw (letter), a letter in several Semitic alphabets digamma, an obsolete letter in the Greek alphabet Vau, Algarve...

He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה, Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه. Its sound value is...

fathah is placed before the letter ⟨ﻱ⟩ (yā’), it creates an /aj/ (as in "lie"); and when placed before the letter ⟨و⟩ (wāw), it creates an /aw/ (as in...

touchstone likewise begins with wāw rubba, here rendered simply as 'someone': Wāw rubba takes its name from the letter wāw, with which the word wa ('and')...

or following letter. However, it is sometimes combined with a wāw, yā’, or alif, and in that case the carrier behaves like an ordinary wāw, yā’, or alif...

problem. Hamza is not considered a full letter in Arabic orthography: in most cases, it appears on a carrier, either a wāw (ؤ), a dotless yā’ (ئ), or an alif...

consonants Aleph (א‎), He (ה‎), Waw/Vav (ו‎), or Yodh (י‎) serving as vowel letters, or matres lectionis: the letter is combined with a previous vowel...

Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn ז, Aramaic zain...

the unrelated letter waw (/w/) in Pamphylia (the "Pamphylian digamma") and was also the form of beta (/b/) used in Melos. The Ionian letter , which later...

alphabet. A fatḥah followed by the letter ⟨ﻭ⟩ (wāw) with a sukūn (ـَوْ) is romanized as aẘ. A fatḥah followed by the letter ⟨ﻱ⟩ (yā’) with a sukūn over it...

Hebrew and Syriac. The letters that do this in Hebrew are aleph א, he ה, waw ו and yod י, with the latter two in particular being more often vowels than...

⟨𐌅⟩ ⟨⟩, like Greek Digamma ⟨Ϝ⟩ and Latin ⟨F⟩ ultimately from Phoenician waw ⟨⟩.[citation needed] The name is recorded in all three rune poems:[full citation...

sound, transliterated as j The letter Waw with a dot below it represents [u], transliterated as ū or u, The letter Waw with a dot above it represents...