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Resh
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{{Phoenician glyph|letname=Resh|archar= ïº |sychar=ܪ|hechar= ר |amchar=resh|gechar=ረ|phchar=res|ipa=r / ɾ / Ê? / Ê€|num=20|gem=200}}
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'''Resh''' is the twentieth letter of many
Semitic abjads, including
Phoenician language Phoenician,
Aramaic language Aramaic,
Hebrew language Hebrew {{Ivrit|ר}} and
Arabic alphabet {{ArabDIN|rÄ?ʼ}} {{ar|ïº}}. Its value is
IPA {{IPA|[r]}} or {{IPA|[ɾ]}},
in Hebrew also {{IPA|[Ê?]}} or {{IPA|[Ê€]}}.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the
Greek alphabet Greek Rho (Ρ),
Etruscan alphabet Etruscan ''r''
Image:EtruscanR-01.png 14px|,
Latin alphabet Latin R, and
Cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic Ð .
Origins of Resh
Resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head (in
Hebrew language modern Hebrew ''rosh''; in Arabic, ''ra's'').
Resh in Hebrew
In
Hebrew language modern Israeli Hebrew Resh is pronounced as a
voiced uvular fricative (
IPA: /Ê?/). This sound is hard for English speakers to pronounce, and it is often pronounced by
Ashkenazim as /
Alveolar approximant ɹ/ or sometimes /
Uvular trill ʀ/.
Mizrahi Jews will pronounce it as /
Alveolar trill r/, or
Alveolar flap ɾ/.
Resh, along with
Ayin,
Aleph (Hebrew) Aleph,
He (letter) He, and
Heth (letter) Heth, cannot receive a
dagesh.
Resh in
gematria represents the number 200.
Resh as an abbreviation can stand for
Rabbi (or Rav,
Rebbe, Rabban, Rabbenu, and other similar constructions).
Resh is used in an Israeli phrase: after a child will say something false, one might say "B'
Shin Qoph, Resh" (With Shin, Qoph, Resh). These letters spell Sheqer, which is the Hebrew word for a lie. It would be akin to an English speaker saying "That's an
L-
I-
E."
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