qoph

qoph  (kôf)

n.

The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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[Hebrew qôp, of Phoenician origin; akin to Hebrew qôp, ape; perhaps akin to Sanskrit kapi, ape, or Egyptian g'f, type of small ape.]

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qoph [kʊf kɒf (Hebrew) kɔf]

n

(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a variant of koph

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qoph - the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"