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HebrewEdit
LetterEdit
ד • (d)
- Dalet, daleth: the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ג and before ה.
- The numeral 4 in Hebrew numbering.
- Initialism of דָּרוֹם (daróm, “south”)., equivalent to S.
Usage notesEdit
- The letter ד represents the phoneme /d/. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, this phoneme is pronounced [d] (like the <d> in English dog).
- In the Masoretic Text, the letter ד takes a dagesh (דּ) not only when geminated, but also at the start of a word or after a consonant. In Yemenite Hebrew, it is pronounced [d] in those contexts, and [ð] (like the <th> in English this) in other contexts; it is commonly believed that the same was true in Classical Hebrew.
- In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the sound /ð/ (like the <th> in English that), which occurs in various foreign phrases and proper nouns, is commonly written ד׳ (dh).
- The letter ד does not have many "grammatical" uses — it mostly occurs only in the "main" part of a word — but one exception is in hitpa'el verbs (and derived nouns) where the first letter of the root is ז (z); for example, one says הִזְדַּקֵּן (hizdakén, “to grow old”) rather than *הִתְזַקֵּן (hitzaken).
Coordinate termsEdit
- (Hebrew script letters) א, ב, ג, ד, ה, ו, ז, ח, ט, י, כך, ל, מם, נן, ס, ע, פף, צץ, ק, ר, ש, ת
Derived termsEdit
- בְּד׳ אַמּוֹת (bedálet amót, “with four limbs”)