Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to l.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (
Phoenician ,Aramaic ,Hebrew ,Syriac ,Arabic and others).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Hebrew lāmed, of Phoenician origin; see lmd in Semitic roots.]
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Examples
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"Some Functions of the Hebrew Particles beth and lamedh," JQR 62 (1972) 199-206.
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