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...
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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...
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Upsilon (redirect from Upsilon (letter))
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...
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F (redirect from F (letter))
(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...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from Greek letter)
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]...
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[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...
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Y (redirect from Samian letter)
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...
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W (redirect from W (letter))
Work in physics 𐤅: 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: Ligature...
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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...
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Balochi Standard Alphabet (section "ݔ" Letter using)
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...
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Digamma (redirect from Digamma (letter))
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...
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V (redirect from V (letter))
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...
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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')...
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Vav-consecutive (redirect from Waw Consecutive)
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...
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(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...
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conjunctive waw or vav conjunctive (Hebrew: ו' החיבור vav hakhibur) is the coordinating conjunction meaning 'and' in Hebrew, spelled with the letter vav. It...
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village in Óbidos, Portugal municipality waw (letter), a letter in several Semitic alphabets digamma, an obsolete letter in the Greek alphabet Vau, Algarve...
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Arabic alphabet (category Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes)
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...
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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...
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Aleph (redirect from Aleph (letter))
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...
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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...
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Hebrew alphabet (redirect from Hebrew letter)
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...
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⟨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...
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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...
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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...
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Zayin (redirect from Zayin (letter))
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...
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Ring (diacritic) (redirect from Modifier letter ring above)
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...
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Diacritic (redirect from Modified letter)
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...
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