Dalet

Dalet
For other uses, see Dalet (disambiguation).
Dalet
Phoenician Hebrew Aramaic Syriac Arabic
Dalet ד Dalet ܕ د
Alphabetic
derivatives		 Greek Latin Cyrillic
Δ D Д
Phonemic representation: d, ð
Position in alphabet: 4
Numerical (Gematria/Abjad) value: 4

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ד, Syriac ܕ and Arabic dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).

The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door,

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The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D and the equivalent in the Cyrillic Д.

Contents

Hebrew Dalet

Semitic alphabets
Phoenician
(c.1050 – 200 BCE)

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