The dagesh (Hebrew: דָּגֵשׁ) is a diacritic that is used in the Hebrew alphabet. It takes the form of a dot placed inside a consonant. A dagesh can either...

indicated by a central dot called dagesh (דגש‎), while the soft sounds lack a dagesh. In modern Hebrew, however, the dagesh only changes the pronunciation...

an /s/ without the dagesh and has the plosive form when it has the dagesh. Among Yemen and some Sephardi areas, tav without a dagesh represented a voiceless...

exception to the rule… dagesh can be seen in Alef and Reish. See Mesorah haGedolah 43:26 and מכלול נז Minchas Shai 43:26. "Unexpected Dagesh in Reish". Mi Yodeya...

receive a dagesh qal. The two functions of dagesh are distinguished as either qal (light) or hazaq (strong). The six letters that can receive a dagesh qal are...

known as a dagesh, it represents a voiceless velar plosive (/k/). There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used...

niqqud-variant? Is the following letter, when בג״ד כפ״ת, pointed with a dagesh qal or not? Is the letter which is pointed with shva assigned to the preceding...

the left of it. The dot is identical to the grammatically different signs dagesh and mappiq, but in a fully vocalized text it is practically impossible to...

center, known as a dagesh, then it represents /b/. There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used. In Ktiv menuqad...

and "ו‎" with a dagesh look identical ("וּ‎") and are only distinguishable through the fact that in text with nikud, "ו‎" with a dagesh will normally be...

known as a dagesh, it represents a voiceless bilabial plosive, /p/. There are various rules in Hebrew grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used...

resh, he and heth, cannot receive a dagesh. (However, there are few very rare examples of the Masoretes adding a dagesh or mappiq to an aleph or resh. The...

2 For sin-dot and shin-dot, the letter "ש‎" (sin/shin) is used. 3 The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk have different uses, but the same graphical representation...

and vav with a dagesh look identical ("וּ‎") and are only distinguishable through the fact that in text with niqqud, vav with a dagesh will normally be...

Ayin, Reish, and Khet, cannot receive a dagesh. Nonetheless, it does receive a marking identical to the dagesh, to form Hei-mappiq (הּ‎). Although indistinguishable...

Vowels Sephardim differ on the pronunciation of bet raphe (ב‎, bet without dagesh). Persian, Moroccan, Greek, Turkish, Balkan and Jerusalem Sephardim usually...

(/ˌtaˈpuaħ/). Ḥet, along with Aleph, Ayin, Resh, and He, cannot receive a dagesh. As pharyngeal fricatives are difficult for most English speakers to pronounce...

including the diacritical signs (niqqud) used for Biblical Hebrew. The dagesh (dot inside the letter) is always transcribed with an overdot: ḃ, ġ, ż,...

created when it is spoken. Dalet can receive a dagesh, being one of the six letters that can receive Dagesh Kal (see Gimel). There are minor variations to...

The Hebrew diacritic U+05BC ּ HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ can represent: Dagesh, indicating a modification of the sound of a letter Mappiq, indicating...

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...

different phonetic function (marking different consonants) is called a dagesh. The mappiq is used to indicate that the corresponding letter is to be pronounced...

(where possible) assimilated into the first root consonant and appears as a dagesh forte. In the imperative and infinitive construct, the prefix is a he (ה‎)...

Aq Dagesh-e Olya (Persian: اقدگش عليا, also Romanized as Āq Dagesh-e ‘Olyā; also known as Āq Dagesh-e Bālā, Āq Dagesh, and Āq Gash-e Bālā) is a village...

(Bet without dagesh) is traditionally /b/, but in Israel, it is often now [v] under the influence of Israeli Hebrew. ג‎ (Gimel without dagesh) is often pronounced...

obviously, four consonants with the dagesh point in print have distinct letters in braille, but three others require a dagesh prefix ⠘ in braille. The different...

and is preceded by a word ending in an open syllable, then there is no dagesh. Begedkefet spirantization developed sometime during the lifetime of Biblical...

extended system of niqqud (vowel points), and has the opposite meaning of dagesh qal, showing that one of the letters בגדכפת is to be pronounced as a fricative...

produced for DAGESH a short film: 'Asylum in Paradise: Eight Visual Artists Based in Berlin'. In November 2017, the premiered at a DAGESH evening event...

which are consonantal letters used as vowels. Further diacritics like Dagesh and Sin and Shin dots are used to indicate variations in the pronunciation...