Resh
/ɹɛʃ/ name, noun
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
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From Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”). Doublet of ras (“Ethiopian king”) and ras (“headland”), and related to reis.