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Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic Abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew and Arabic Alphabet (in Abjadi Order ). The original sound value is a ; it retains this value in most Semitic languages except for Arabic, which having lost now uses it to render a Voiceless Labiodental Fricative . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , and Cyrillic Pe . ORIGINS OF PE Pe is usually assumed to come from a pictogram of a mouth (in Hebrew ''pe''; in Arabic, ''fem''). ARABIC Fāʼ The letter is named ''fāʼ'', and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word: Fāʼ- Fatḥa (فَـ ) is a prefix equivalent to "so" or "so that." For example: نكتب ''naktub'' ("we write") → فنكتب ''fanaktub'' ("so we write"). PE IN HEBREW Variations on written form/pronunciation: See Also: Hebrew phonology The letter Pe is one of the six letters which can receive a Dagesh Kal . The six are Bet , Gimel , Daleth , Kaph , Pe, and Tav (see Hebrew Alphabet for more about these letters). There are two orthographic variants of this letter which indicate a different pronunciation:
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Pe with the dagesh When the Pe has a "dot" in its center, known as a Dagesh , it represents a Voiceless Bilabial Plosive , }. There are various rules in Hebrew Grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used. Pe without the dagesh (Phe) When this letter appears as פ ''without'' the Dagesh ("dot") in its center then it usually represents a Voiceless Labiodental Fricative . Final form of Phe At the end of words the letter's written form changes to a ''Phe Sophit'' (Final Phe):
Significance of Pe: In Gematria , Pe represents the number 80. Its final form represents 800 but this is rarely used, Tav written twice (400+400) being used instead. |
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