resh (r sh)n. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet. [Hebrew rê  , of Aramaic or Phoenician dialectal origin; see r in Semitic roots.] |
resh [reɪʃ (Hebrew) reʃ]
n
(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the 20th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ר), transliterated as r
[from Hebrew, from rōsh head]
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| Noun | 1. | resh - the 20th 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" |
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