What is "gimel"

gimel \gimel\ n. the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

n. The third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic).

n. the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Gimel is the third letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Gīml , Hebrew ˈGimel , Aramaic Gāmal , Syriac Gāmal , and Arabic (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order). Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, save Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive ; in Modern Standard Arabic, it represents either a or for most Arabic speakers except in Lower Egypt, the southern parts of Yemen and some parts of Oman where it is pronounced as a voiced velar plosive , see below and also Persian Gaf گ.

In its unattested Proto-Canaanite form, the letter may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick, ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph based on the hieroglyph below:

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The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek gamma (Γ), the Latin C and G, and the Cyrillic Г.

Gimel may mean

• Gimel, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud
• Gimel-les-Cascades, France
• Gimel (letter), a Hebrew letter
• Yom Gimel, or simply Gimel, a day of sick leave in the Israel Defense Forces
• Plan Gimel (Plan C), a general military plan worked out by the Zionist paramilitary organization Haganah in 1946, before Plan Dalet
• Gymel, technique of temporarily dividing up one voice part, usually an upper one, into two parts of equal range, but singing different music
• Gimel is The High Priestess who is one of the 22 trump cards ( major arcana) in tarot
• Gimel function in set theory