Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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- noun The nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (
Phoenician ,Aramaic ,Hebrew ,Syriac ,Arabic and others).
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- noun the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Hebrew qôp, of Phoenician origin; akin to Hebrew qôp, ape; perhaps akin to Sanskrit kapiḥ, ape, or Egyptian g’f, type of small ape.]
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Examples
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Rational Review 2009
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Masoretic text does not observe), classical Hebrew would represent the higher multiples of a hundred by beginning with tav (400) and adding as many other "hundreds" characters as were necessary to produce the quantity desired; hence tav-qoph for 500, tav-shin for 700, tav-tav for 800, and tav-tav-qoph for 900.
mariecarnes commented on the word qoph
An excellent Scrabble word.
June 29, 2008