Lam
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Lam is twenty third letter in arabic alphabet.
Lamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Lāmed, Hebrew 'Lāmed ל, Aramaic Lāmadh, Syriac Lāmaḏ ܠ, and Arabic Lām ل. Its sound value is [l].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic Л.
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Origins
The letter is usually considered to have originated from the representation of a goad hieroglyph, i.e. a cattle prod, or a shepherd's stick, i.e. a pastoral staff.
Other studies relate the origin of the letter "Lam" to the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "rope".
