Definitions

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  • noun The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Etymologies

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From Proto-Semitic word for "door"; compare Hebrew דֶלֶת (délet).

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Examples

  • Earth and her pillars around me forever lamed dalet

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5) 2008

  • For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. kaf dalet

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 4) 2008

  • The three figures stand where they stood, black against bright sky, watching. dalet

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ 2008

  • When the woman awakes, the fever has broken. mem dalet

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 6) 2008

  • My God insists that we give a damn -- that we wake up to the suffering of the widow, the orphan and the stranger, that we recognize that the bond of human connectedness extends beyond our own dalet amot -- our own immediate family and circle of friends.

    Sharon Brous: Defying Despair: Why I Believe 2008

  • Kedusha is from the Hebrew root kuf-dalet-shin, which means "holy."

    Archive 2007-06-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • For example, they noted that Hebrew words with the letter zayin often resembled Aramaic words with the letter dalet: in Hebrew zachar means "to remember," whereas the Aramaic equivalent is dechar.

    Linguistic creationism Kylopod 2006

  • For example, they noted that Hebrew words with the letter zayin often resembled Aramaic words with the letter dalet: in Hebrew zachar means "to remember," whereas the Aramaic equivalent is dechar.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Kylopod 2006

  • This e-text includes a few Greek and Hebrew letters: ayin ע, dalet ד, he ה, shin ש; gamma Γ γ, theta Θ θ

    Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) G. W.

  • The two Hebrew characters (khet on the right, dalet on the left) on p. 180 may appear reversed on some computer systems that have not been set to read right-to-left languages correctly.

    Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales 1889

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