• 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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    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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    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...
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    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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    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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    Hamza (redirect from Waw hamza)
    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...
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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. 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 (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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  • 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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    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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