What is fourth letter of alphabet?

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2026-07-29 21:15

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Dalet or Daled (ד) which is pronounced D

More information about Dalet

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic alphabets, including:

  • Phoenician Dālet ?
  • Hebrew 'Dālet ד
  • Aramaic Dālath ?
  • Ugaritic Delta ?
  • Syriac Dālaṯ ܕ
  • Arabic Dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order)

. The sound value of Dalet is a voiced alveolar plosive [d].


The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door,


The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D and the equivalent in the Cyrillic Д.

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