ܪ

See also: ܕ
ܪ U+072A, ܪ
SYRIAC LETTER RISH
ܩ
[U+0729]
Syriac ܫ
[U+072B]

Classical Syriac

Etymology

Ultimately from Phoenician 𐤓 (r, resh). Compare Arabic ر (r) and Hebrew ר (r).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): [re(j)ʃ]
  • (sound) IPA(key): [r]

Letter

ܪ • (r)

  1. resh, twentieth letter of the Syriac alphabet

Coordinate terms

  • Previous: ܩ
  • Next: ܫ

Descendants

  • Old Turkic: 𐰺 (), 𐰻 ()
  • ? Old Turkic: 𐰼 ()

See also

Numeral

ܪ • (200)

  1. number two hundred (200)

References

  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 334a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 524a
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 1424a
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