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reish

reish is the alternative spelling of resh.

Meaning of resh

Noun

resh (plural reshes)

  1. The twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). It is homologous with Greek rho and Latin r.

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Proper noun capitalized: Reish

Reish (plural Reishes)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of reish

Noun
pluralreishes
Proper noun
pluralReishes

Origin of reish

Variant of Reisch.

Questions about reish

What does reish mean?
Reish means a surname from German.
What is reish the alternative spelling of?
Reish is the alternative spelling of resh.
What part of speech is reish?
Reish is a proper noun.

Words near reish in the dictionary

  1. Reisenauer
  2. Reisenauers
  3. Reisenwitz
  4. Reisenwitzes
  5. reises
  6. reish
  7. Reishahr
  8. reishes
  9. reishi
  10. reishis
  11. Reisig

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reish (page history and authors); Reish (page history and authors); resh (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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