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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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- 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
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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).
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