sadhe

or tsa·de

[ sah-dee, -duh, tsah-dee ]

noun

1. the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.

sadhe

/ ˈtsadiː; ˈtsɑːdiː; ˈsɑːdiː /

noun

1. the 18th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (צ or, at the end of a word ץ), transliterated as s or ts and pronounced more or less like English s or ts with pharyngeal articulation

Word History and Origins

Origin of sadhe¹

First recorded in 1895–1900, sadhe is from the Hebrew word ṣādhē