Resh

//ɹɛʃ// name, noun

name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). It is homologous with Greek rho and Latin r.
  2. 2
    the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”). Doublet of ras (“Ethiopian king”) and ras (“headland”), and related to reis.

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