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noun
The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A tool used to read a Torah.
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noun
the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
History
Borrowed from Hebrew יו״ד (yo"d, “name of the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”). That letter is used also in other Semitic alphabets; it represents the voiced palatal approximant /j/. Doublet of iota, jot, and yod.
Across languages
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