gim·el (g m  l)n. The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet. [Hebrew gîmel, of Phoenician origin; see gml2 in Semitic roots.] |
gimel [ˈgɪməl (Hebrew) ˈgiːmɛl]
n
(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ג) transliterated as g or, when final, gh
[literally: camel]
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| Noun | 1. |  gimel - the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabetHebraic 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" |
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