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shvas

shvas is the plural of shva.

Meaning of shva

Noun

shva (plural shvas)

  1. A Hebrew nikud vowel sign written as two vertical dots beneath a letter, in Israeli Hebrew indicating either the phoneme /e/ or the complete absence of a vowel.

Questions about shvas

What is shvas the plural of?
Shvas is the plural of shva.

Words near shvas in the dictionary

  1. shvartsers
  2. shvartze
  3. shvartzer
  4. shvartzers
  5. shvartzes
  6. shvas
  7. Shvat
  8. Shvetambara
  9. shvi
  10. shviger
  11. shvigers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shvas (page history and authors); shva (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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