The dagesh (Hebrew: דָּגֵשׁ dagésh) is a diacritic that is used in the Hebrew alphabet. It takes the form of a dot placed inside a consonant. A dagesh can...
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Hebrew alphabet (section Dagesh)
indicated by a central dot called dagesh (דגש), while the soft sounds lack a dagesh. In modern Hebrew, however, the dagesh only changes the pronunciation...
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an /s/ without the dagesh and has the plosive form when it has the dagesh. Among Yemen and some Sephardi areas, tav without a dagesh represented a voiceless...
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Bet (letter) (section Bet with the dagesh)
center, known as a dagesh, then it represents /b/. There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used. In Ktiv menuqad...
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exception to the rule… dagesh can be seen in Alef and Reish. See Mesorah haGedolah 43:26 and מכלול נז Minchas Shai 43:26. "Unexpected Dagesh in Reish". Mi Yodeya...
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Kaph (section Kaf with the dagesh)
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...
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receive a dagesh qal. The two functions of dagesh are distinguished as either qal (light) or hazaq (strong). The six letters that can receive a dagesh qal are...
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Pe (Semitic letter) (section Pe with the dagesh)
known as a dagesh, it represents a voiceless bilabial plosive, /p/. There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used...
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the left of it. The dot is identical to the grammatically different signs dagesh and mappiq, but in a fully vocalized text it is practically impossible to...
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and "ו" with a dagesh look identical ("וּ") and are only distinguishable through the fact that in text with nikud, "ו" with a dagesh will normally be...
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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...
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niqqud-variant? Is the following letter, when בג״ד כפ״ת, pointed with a dagesh qal or not? Is the letter which is pointed with shva assigned to the preceding...
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resh, he and heth, cannot receive a dagesh. (However, there are few very rare examples of the Masoretes adding a dagesh or mappiq to an aleph or resh. The...
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2 For sin-dot and shin-dot, the letter "ש" (sin/shin) is used. 3 The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk have different uses, but the same graphical representation...
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Vowels Sephardim differ on the pronunciation of bet raphe (ב, bet without dagesh). Persian, Moroccan, Greek, Turkish, Balkan and Jerusalem Sephardim usually...
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created when it 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...
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Ayin, Reish, and Khet, cannot receive a dagesh. Nonetheless, it does receive a marking identical to the dagesh, to form Hei-mappiq (הּ). Although indistinguishable...
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different phonetic function (marking different consonants) is called a dagesh. The mappiq is used to indicate that the corresponding letter is to be pronounced...
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including the diacritical signs (niqqud) used for Biblical Hebrew. The dagesh (dot inside the letter) is always transcribed with an overdot: ḃ, ġ, ż,...
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and is preceded by a word ending in an open syllable, then there is no dagesh. Begedkefet spirantization developed sometime during the lifetime of Biblical...
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(/ˌtaˈpuaħ/). Ḥet, along with Aleph, Ayin, Resh, and He, cannot receive a dagesh. As pharyngeal fricatives are difficult for most English speakers to pronounce...
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/b/ sound. ג (Gimel without dagesh) is pronounced [ɣ] (voiced velar fricative) like Arabic غ. ד (Dalet without dagesh) is normally pronounced [d], but...
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obviously, four consonants with the dagesh point in print have distinct letters in braille, but three others require a dagesh prefix ⠘ in braille. The different...
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segol followed by dagesh), or, as in this case, as sha- (Shin plus vowel patach followed by a dagesh). The noun containing the dagesh is the Hebrew word...
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extended system of niqqud (vowel points), and has the opposite meaning of dagesh qal, showing that one of the letters בגדכפת is to be pronounced as a fricative...
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(where possible) assimilated into the first root consonant and appears as a dagesh forte. In the imperative and infinitive construct, the prefix is a he (ה)...
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The Hebrew diacritic U+05BC ּ HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ can represent: Dagesh, indicating a modification of the sound of a letter Mappiq, indicating...
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produced for DAGESH a short film: 'Asylum in Paradise: Eight Visual Artists Based in Berlin'. In November 2017, the premiered at a DAGESH evening event...
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Aq Dagesh-e Olya (Persian: اقدگش عليا, also Romanized as Āq Dagesh-e ‘Olyā; also known as Āq Dagesh-e Bālā, Āq Dagesh, and Āq Gash-e Bālā) is a village...
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(Bet without dagesh) is traditionally /b/, but in Israel, it is often now [v] under the influence of Israeli Hebrew. ג (Gimel without dagesh) is often pronounced...
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