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Qamatz
ָ
IPA
[ä]
Transliteration
a
English approximation
spa
Similar sound
pataḥ
Example
דָּג
The word for fish in Hebrew, dag. The only vowel (under Dalet, the two perpendicular lines) is a qamatz.
Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA:[kaˈmats]; alternatively קָמֶץqāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud (vowel) sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) ⟨ ָ ⟩ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it usually indicates the phoneme /a/ which is the "a" sound in the word spa and is transliterated as a. In these cases, its sound is identical to the sound of pataḥ in modern Hebrew. In a minority of cases it indicates the phoneme /o/, equal to the sound of ḥolam. In traditional Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation, qamatz is pronounced as the phoneme /ɔ/, which becomes /u/ in some contexts in southern Ashkenazi dialects.
Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA: [kaˈmats]; alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud (vowel) sign represented by two perpendicular lines...
Ashkenazi, Yemenite, and Tiberian Hebrew. The differentiation between kamatz gadol and kamatz katan is made according to purely phonetic rules, without regard...
stressed (sometimes called seggolate), may be written with kubutz or with kamatz katan when declined. For example, base form: מַשְׂכֹּרֶת (wage, [masˈkoʁet]);...
almost universally rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bartenura. When using a kamatz, the term can refer to, among others: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik: Among Centrist...
"Reduced Segol"). The reduced (or ħataf) niqqud exist for segol, patah, and kamatz which contain a shva next to it. The following table contains the pronunciation...
Dictionary respells תָּכְנִית as ⟨תּוֹכְנִית⟩ because the word uses the kamatz katan. For example, Sergey Ozhegov's dictionary adds [нэ́] in brackets to...
prominent difference is kamatz gadol in closed syllables being pronounced same as patah in Yiddish but the same as any other kamatz in Ashkenazi Hebrew....
consonant [e̞] e men Patach vowel written below consonant [ä] a father Kamatz vowel written below consonant [ä], (or [o̞]) ah, (or oh) father, loɡin Holam...
Examples IPA IPA after trans. a סָ (letter with kamatz), (letter with patah), אַ/אָ (Alef with kamatz or patach) (Not part of ordinary Hebrew spelling...
va-nashubah and bi-yom (but be-Yisrael). The differentiation between kamatz gadol and kamatz katan is made according to purely phonetic rules without regard...
couple has also raised Siberian Huskies namely Snow, Krystal, Kirby and Kamatz, to name a few. Julius and Christine are also avid art collectors where...
gods, and Lord of lords"). The final syllable of Adonai uses the vowel kamatz, rather than patach which would be expected from the Hebrew for 'my lord(s)'...
feature of being a digraph of a small vowel diacritic (Patach, Segol or Kamatz Katan) plus a shva sign. Similarly, their names are derived from the respective...
omitted or added. For further complications involving Kamatz katan and Hataf kamatz, see the article Kamatz. In words, in which the penultimate syllable has...
Instead, they can take reduced segol (חֱ), reduced patach (חֲ), or reduced kamatz (חֳ). Stress is phonemic in Modern Hebrew. There are two frequent patterns...
prominent difference is kamatz gadol in closed syllables being pronounced same as patah in Yiddish but the same as any other kamatz in Ashkenazi Hebrew....
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