Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet (), corresponding to the English g in go. Its numerical value is 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
third letter of the severalSemitic alphabet (Phoenician ,Aramaic ,Hebrew ,Syriac ,Arabic ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Luckily (with a gimel spin of the dreidel), due to a recent change in the law in the state of Michigan, this will be the second year in decades that it will be legal for bars to be open and serving alcohol (with a special license) on Christmas Day evening.
Rachel Winer: Festivus! For the Rest of Us Rachel Winer 2011
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The Greek alphabet was borrowed and adapted from the Phoenicians by the eighth century B.C., so that the aleph, bet, and gimel of Phoenician became the alpha, beta, and gamma of Greek.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The Greek alphabet was borrowed and adapted from the Phoenicians by the eighth century B.C., so that the aleph, bet, and gimel of Phoenician became the alpha, beta, and gamma of Greek.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Luckily (with a gimel spin of the dreidel), due to a recent change in the law in the state of Michigan, this will be the second year in decades that it will be legal for bars to be open and serving alcohol (with a special license) on Christmas Day evening.
Rachel Winer: Festivus! For the Rest of Us Rachel Winer 2011
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The Greek alphabet was borrowed and adapted from the Phoenicians by the eighth century B.C., so that the aleph, bet, and gimel of Phoenician became the alpha, beta, and gamma of Greek.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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So I've tentatively extrapolated that gamma, delta, iota, chi, and rho are *cemla (cf. gimel), *talta (cf. daleth), *eiata (cf. yod), *χei and *rusa (cf. resh).
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I mean, even if the wreckerator reversed the flotsam, there is no way ה (he) and נ (nun) would be adjacent on a dreidel, and even if I give the Chinese manufacturer of this awful piece of plastic the benefit of a doubt and say it's a ג (gimel) rather than a נ (nun), they are still in the wrong order.
Chappy Chanukah 2009
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He feels the shadow of a great hand -- lamed gimel
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It grows in the woods, or near water, he says, and looks rather like wild carrot. kaf gimel
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All night he weeps, as his students sleep. nun gimel
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