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gershayim

gershayim noun: the Hebrew character ״, used to indicate acronyms and other multi-letter abbreviations.

Noun

gershayim pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, rare) The Hebrew character ״, used to indicate acronyms and other multi-letter abbreviations.

Origin of gershayim

Borrowed from Hebrew גרשיים / גֵּרְשַׁיִם (gersháyim, literally “two apostrophes”).

Questions about gershayim

What does gershayim mean?
Gershayim means the Hebrew character ״, used to indicate acronyms and other multi-letter abbreviations.
What part of speech is gershayim?
Gershayim is a noun.

Words near gershayim in the dictionary

  1. Gerschenkron effects
  2. Gersches
  3. gersdorffite
  4. gersdorffites
  5. gersh
  6. gershayim
  7. Gershenfeld
  8. Gershengorn
  9. Gershman
  10. Gershmans
  11. Gershom

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