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YODH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("yodh" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("yodh" is a member of...):
Hebraic alphabet; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew script (a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino))