koph

American  

[kawf] / kɔf /

Or kof,

noun

1. the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

2. the uvular stop consonant sound represented by this letter.

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koph British  

/ kɒf /

noun

1. the 19th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ק) transliterated as q, and pronounced as a velar or uvular stop

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Etymology

Origin of koph

From the Hebrew word qōph

Example Sentences

I saw it best, along with the koph, which is, I suppose, much rarer, in the splendid bronze plates containing Locrian inscriptions, which are in the possession of Mr. Taylor’s heirs at Corfu.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

There is redundancy in the two forms for k, namely kaph and koph; in the two for t, namely teth and tau; and in the two for s, namely samech and shin.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

Apes are called, in Hebrew, koph, a word without an etymology in the Semitic languages, but nearly identical in sound with the Sanskrit name of ape, kapi.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

Koles, Kolarians, 525, 531, 532 ff. koph, 543.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn