![]() The Hebrew letter represents two different phonemes: a "b" sound ( /b/) (bet) and a "v" sound ( /v/) (vet). For /p/, it may be used interchangeably with the Persian letter پ - pe (with 3 dots) in this case. The letter normally renders /b/ sound, except in some names and loanwords where it can also render /p/, often Arabized as /b/, as in بَرْسِيلْ ( Persil). It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: The Arabic letter ب is named بَاءْ bāʾ ( bāʔ). ![]() The name bet is derived from the West Semitic word for " house" (as in Hebrew bayt בַּיִת), and the shape of the letter derives from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph that may have been based on the Egyptian hieroglyph Pr The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta ( Β, β), Latin B (B, b) and Cyrillic Be ( Б, б) and Ve ( В, в). ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony. The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayīṯ, Phoenician bēt etc. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩. Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt □, Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ □, Syriac bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic bāʾ ب.
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