name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɹɛʃ/
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rhymes with -ɛʃ
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CMU ARPABET: R EH1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). It is homologous with Greek rho and Latin r.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 3
the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
History
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”). Doublet of ras (“Ethiopian king”) and ras (“headland”), and related to reis.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: reix — Semitic letter
- Finnish: reš — Semitic letter
- French: rèch — Semitic letter
- French: resh — Semitic letter
- Hebrew: רֵישׁ (resh) — Semitic letter
- Hebrew: ר — Semitic letter
- Yiddish: ריש (reysh) — Semitic letter