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kaph

/kɑːf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kaph
IPA
/kɑːf/
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Etymology

From Hebrew כָּף (kaf, “kaph”), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”) (Akkadian 𒀉 (kappu(m)), Hebrew כַּף (kaf, “hand/foot”), Arabic كَفّ (kaff), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔 (kp)) Doublet of kappa.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

kaphs (plural) caph (alternative) kaf (alternative) kap (alternative)

Homonyms

caf

Rhymes With

half staff laugh behalf graph block graph cough calf giraffe graff polygraph draff

Questions

How do you pronounce kaph?
The recorded pronunciation is /kɑːf/.
What does kaph mean?
The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Where does kaph come from?
It is traced to Hebrew.

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