lamed
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of lamed
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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noun
- The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of lame
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Etymology
From Hebrew לָמֶד (lamedh), from Proto-Semitic *lamed- (“goad”) (Hebrew מַלְמָד (malmad, “goad”)). Doublet of lambda.
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