Dalet
Fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Semitic letter. For the designation as "untouchable" in the Hindu caste system, see Dalit. For other uses, see Dalet (disambiguation).
Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician dālt 𐤃, Hebrew dālet ד, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Syriac dālaṯ ܕ, and Arabic dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).
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Dalet | |
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Phoenician | |
Hebrew | ד |
Aramaic | |
Syriac | ܕ |
Arabic | د |
Phonemic representation | d, ð |
Position in alphabet | 4 |
Numerical value | 4 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Δ |
Latin | D |
Cyrillic | Д |
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The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door: