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See also: ד־, ד׳, and Appendix:Variations of "d"

ד	U+05D3, ד HEBREW LETTER DALET

← ג
[U+05D2]

ה →
[U+05D4]

ﬢ	U+FB22, ﬢ HEBREW LETTER WIDE DALET

← ﬡ
[U+FB21]

Alphabetic Presentation Forms

ﬣ →
[U+FB23]

Hebrew

Pronunciation

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Letter

ד • (d)

Dalet, daleth: the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ג and before ה.
The numeral 4 in Hebrew numbering.
Initialism of דָּרוֹם (daróm, “south”), equivalent to S.

Usage notes

The letter ד represents the phoneme /d/. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, this phoneme is pronounced [d] (like the <d> in English dog).
In the Masoretic Text, the letter ד takes a dagesh (דּ) not only when geminated, but also at the start of a word or after a consonant. In Yemenite Hebrew, it is pronounced [d] in those contexts, and [ð] (like the <th> in English this) in other contexts; it is commonly believed that the same was true in Classical Hebrew.
In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the sound /ð/ (like the <th> in English that), which occurs in various foreign phrases and proper nouns, is commonly written ד׳ (dh).
The letter ד does not have many "grammatical" uses — it mostly occurs only in the "main" part of a word — but one exception is in hitpa'el verbs (and derived nouns) where the first letter of the root is ז (z); for example, one says הִזְדַּקֵּן (hizdakén, “to grow old”) rather than *הִתְזַקֵּן (hitzaken).

Coordinate terms

Hebrew script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): א, ב, ג, ד, ה, ו, ז, ח, ט, י, כ~ך, ל, מ~ם, נ~ן, ס, ע, פ~ף, צ~ץ, ק, ר, ש, ת^[edit]

Derived terms

בְּד׳ אַמּוֹת (bedálet amót, “with four limbs”)

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Mozarabic

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dē. Compare Portuguese and Spanish de.

Preposition

ד (d)

of
- c. 1100, Kharja H1, section 3:
  דשת אלזמאן
  dšt ʔlzmʔn
  of this time
- c. 1100, Kharja H1, section 4:
  ... פליו דבן אלדיאן
  ... flyw dbn ʔldyʔn
  ... son of Aben al-Dayyan
- c. 1100, Kharja H3, section 3:
  כם ראיה דשול אשיד
  km rʔyh dšwl ʔšyd
  He appears like a sunbeam
  (literally, “He comes out like (a) ray of (the) sun”)
- c. 1100, Kharja H16, section 1:
  כי פראיו או כי שיראד דמיבי
  ky frʔyw ʔw ky šyrʔd dmyby
  What shall I do, what will become of me?
  (literally, “What shall I do or what will be of me?”)
from
- c. 1100, Kharja H16, section 3:
  נון תיטולגש דמיבי
  nwn tyṭwlgš dmyby
  Don't leave me!
  (literally, “Don't take yourself away from me!”)

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