koph
Americannoun
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the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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the uvular stop consonant sound represented by this letter.
noun
Etymology
Origin of koph
From the Hebrew word qōph
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Apes are called, in Hebrew, koph, a word without an etymology in the Semitic languages, but nearly identical in sound with the Sanskrit name of ape, kapi.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Koles, Kolarians, 525, 531, 532 ff. koph, 543.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
I saw it best, along with the koph, which is, I suppose, much rarer, in the splendid bronze plates containing Locrian inscriptions, which are in the possession of Mr. Taylor’s heirs at Corfu.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
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 George Rawlinson
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