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lamedh
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Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew lāmeḏ , Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic lām , and Phoenician lāmd 𐤋. Its sound value is . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪁, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
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Vinony's link graph records 449 inbound references to lamedh, and connects out to voiced alveolar lateral approximant, Arabic and Λ.
Vinony files it under Arabic letters, Hebrew letters and Phoenician alphabet.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Lām لام
- Grapheme.letter
- ل
- Grapheme.script
- Arabic script
- Grapheme.type
- Abjad
- Grapheme.language
- Arabic language
- Grapheme.phonemes
- ()
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 23
- Grapheme.fam2
- 𐤋
- Grapheme.fam3
- 𐡋
- Grapheme.fam4
- 𐢐, 𐢑
- Grapheme.direction
- Right-to-left
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Arabic lām
- Orthography
- Grammatical functions
- Hebrew lamed
- Pronunciation
- Significance
- Syriac lamadh
- Character encodings
- References
- External links
Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew lāmeḏ , Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic lām , and Phoenician lāmd 𐤋. Its sound value is . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪁, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lamedh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.