noun
the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• Hypernyms: ↑letter, ↑letter of the alphabet, ↑alphabetic character
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hebrew alphabet, ↑Hebraic alphabet, ↑Hebrew script
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/sah"meuhkh/, n.
1. the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.
Also, samech.
[ < Heb samekh, akin to samakh he supported]
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samekh /säˈmək or samˈehh/
noun
The fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
ORIGIN: Heb
Useful english dictionary. 2012.