Dalet

Dalet
Phoenician
𐤃
Hebrew
ד
Aramaic
𐡃
Syriac
ܕ
Arabic
د
Phonemic representationd, (ð)
Position in alphabet4
Numerical value4
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΔ
LatinD
CyrillicД

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic dāl د‎, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Hebrew dālet ד‎, Phoenician dālt 𐤃 and Syriac dālaṯ ܕ. Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).


The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door:

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