kaph

kaph  (käf, kôf)

n.

The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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[Hebrew kap, of Phoenician origin; see kpp¹ in Semitic roots.]

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kaph [kɔːf kɑːf (Hebrew) kaf]

n

(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet (כ or, at the end of a word, ך) transliterated as k or, when final, kh

[Hebrew, literally: palm of the hand]

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kaph - the 11th 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"