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Pataḥ
ַ
IPA
[a] or [ä]
Transliteration
a
English approximation
far
Same sound
qamatz
Example
גַּם
The word for also in Hebrew, gam. The first and only vowel (under Gimel, the horizontal line) is a pataḥ.
Pataḥ (Hebrew: פַּתָּחpatákh, IPA:[paˈtaχ], Biblical Hebrew: pattā́ḥ) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by a horizontal line ⟨ אַ ⟩ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme /a/ which is close to the "[a]" sound in the English word far and is transliterated as an a.
In Modern Hebrew, a pataḥ makes the same sound as a qamatz, as does the ḥaṭaf pataḥ (Hebrew: חֲטַף פַּתַחIPA:[ħaˈtafpaˈtaħ], "reduced pataḥ"). The reduced (or ḥaṭaf) niqqud exist for pataḥ, qamatz, and segol which contain a shva next to it.
In Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called pasekh in Yiddish) has two uses. The combination of pasekh with the letter aleph, אַ, is used to represent the vowel [a]; the combination of pasekh with a digraph consisting of two yods, ײַ, is used to represent the diphthong [aj].
Patach Eliyahu (פָּתַח אֵלִיָּהוּ, "Elijah opened"), also called Petihat Eliyahu HaNavi (פתיחת אליהו הנביא, "The Introduction of Elijah the Prophet")...
transcribed "ʿ" (Yeshuaʿ). The final [ăʕ] represents the "patach genuvah" ("furtive" patach), indicating that the consonant ʿayin is pronounced after...
soul-level of nefesh The soul-garment of action The mouth (Patach Eliyahu) The Oral Torah tradition (Patach Eliyahu) The Shechinah The Birkat HaShachar and the...
consonants that can take a vowel at the end of a word. This occurs when patach gnuva comes under the Ḥet at the end of the word. The combination is then...
Aleph. Ayin is also one of the three letters that can take a furtive patach (patach ganuv). In Hebrew loanwords in Greek and Latin, ʿayin is sometimes reflected...
see Note 2) bed, penguin Segol vowel written below consonant [e̞] e men Patach vowel written below consonant [ä] a father Kamatz vowel written below consonant...
segol followed by dagesh), or, as in this case, as sha- (Shin plus vowel patach followed by a dagesh). The noun containing the dagesh is the Hebrew word...
Even-Shoshan Dictionary. [ə] changes to [a] on a guttural letter. Segol changes to patach on a guttural letter. As an exception, כול is written without vav when it...
Mappiq still retains the guttural characteristic that it should take a patach and render the pronunciation /a(h)/ at the end of the word, for example...
"death".[citation needed] Some segolate words' final syllable ends with a patach rather than a segol, due to the influence of guttural consonants (ה, ע...
partzuf of Abba The element of Fire The soul-level of Chayah The brain (Patach Eliyahu) The Shemoneh Esrei in the Shacharit prayer service In the allegory...
others Pata Pata (album) by Miriam Makeba Pata Pata (Peru), a mountain Patach, a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign Patas, a species of monkey Patta (disambiguation)...
סוּסוֹת susot (mares) סוּסוֹת טוֹבוֹת susot tovot (good mares) ַ יִם (Patach, Yud with Chirik and Final Mem) masculine and feminine noun dual form יָדַיִם...
soul-garment of speech The emotions The arms, torso, legs, and circumcision (Patach Eliyahu) In the allegory of the teacher and the student, the penultimate...
lords"). The final syllable of Adonai uses the vowel kamatz, rather than patach which would be expected from the Hebrew for 'my lord(s)'. Professor Yoel...
Hebrew. Nevertheless, a non-silent word-final hey (הּ) can take a furtive patach. Among Modern Hebrew speakers, the pronunciation of some of the above letters...
Esztergom (Hungarian: Boldog Özséb) of two communities: one founded at Patach around 1225 by Bishop Bartholomew of Pécs, who had united the scattered...
share the common feature of being a digraph of a small vowel diacritic (Patach, Segol or Kamatz Katan) plus a shva sign. Similarly, their names are derived...
Also in final syllables closed by guttural letters with an added furtive patach: מַטְבֵּעַ ([matˈbeaʕ], coin), שוֹכֵחַ ([ʃoˈχeaħ], forgetting). Notable...
distinguished from the definite article because it is vowelized with a chataf patach הֲבֵן יַקִּיר לִי? haven yaqir li? (Is he my most precious son?)...
(letter with kamatz), (letter with patah), אַ/אָ (Alef with kamatz or patach) (Not part of ordinary Hebrew spelling but sometimes used in transliterations)...
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