kaph

American

[kahf, kawf] / kɑf, kɔf /

Or caph

noun

the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
the consonant sound represented by this letter.

kaph British

/ kɔːf, kaf, kɑːf /

noun

the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet (כ or, at the end of a word, ך) transliterated as k or, when final, kh

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Etymology

Origin of kaph

1875–80; < Hebrew: literally, palm (of the hand), sole (of the foot)

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kaph

The ch is a guttural like the Hebrew kaph, or like ch in the word loch.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

There is redundancy in the two forms for k, namely kaph and koph; in the two for t, namely teth and tau; and in the two for s, namely samech and shin.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

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