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kaph

/kɑːf/

kaph noun: the eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Noun

kaph (plural kaphs)

  1. The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

kaph meaning in Bengali, Arabic, Malay and Persian

kaph in Bengali

আরামীয়, হিব্রু, সিরীয়

kaph in Arabic

Hebrew letter
كَاف kāf

kaph in Malay

Hebrew letter
kaf

kaph in Persian

Hebrew letter
کاف kâf

Forms of kaph

pluralkaphs
alternative formcaph
alternative formkaf
alternative formkap

Origin of kaph

From Hebrew כָּף (kaf, “kaph”), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”) (Akkadian 𒀉 (kappu(m)), Hebrew כַּף (kaf, “hand/foot”), Arabic كَفّ (kaff), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔 (kp)) Doublet of kappa.

Words that rhyme with kaph

Questions about kaph

What does kaph mean?
Kaph means the eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
What is kaph in Bengali?
Kaph in Bengali is আরামীয়, হিব্রু, সিরীয়. See Kaph meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is kaph?
Kaph is a noun.
How do you pronounce kaph?
Kaph is pronounced /kɑːf/.
What is the plural of kaph?
The plural of kaph is kaphs.

Words near kaph in the dictionary

  1. Kapenaars
  2. kapes
  3. kapeyka
  4. Kapfhamer
  5. Kapfhammer
  6. kaph
  7. kapha
  8. kapheneion
  9. kapheneions
  10. kaphs
  11. kapia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kaph (page history and authors); kaph (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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