heth

See also: Heth and heth.

English

Alternative forms

• chet, cheth, ḥet, ẖet, hheth, het, khet, kheth

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛθ

Noun

heth (plural heths)

1. The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Semitic letter

• Catalan: het (ca) f
• Finnish: het (fi)
• French: hèt (fr) m, cheth (fr) m, het (fr) m, heth (fr) m
• German: Chet n, Cheth n
• Hebrew: חי״ת \ חֵית f (khet)
• Yiddish: חית m or f (khes)

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

• heth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew חֵי״ת (ḥēṯ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: hèth

Noun

heth m (invariable)

1. heth, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤇
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ח

Middle English

Noun

heth

1. Alternative form of heeth