gimel

[ gim-uh l ]
/ ˈgɪm əl /

noun

the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
the consonant sound represented by this letter.
Music. gymel.

Origin of gimel

< Hebrew gīmel, akin to gāmāl camel

Words nearby gimel

gilyak, gimbals, gimbel, gimcrack, gimcrackery, gimel, gimlet, gimlet eye, gimmal, gimme, gimme cap

Example sentences from the Web for gimel

  • In Greek and Hebrew the third letter (gimel, gamma) had the power of the flat mute g, as in gun.

    The English Language |Robert Gordon Latham

  • Their beth was a house in the tent form; their gimel a camel, represented by its head and neck; their daleth a door, and so on.

    History of Phoenicia |George Rawlinson

  • Count Gimel, of whom I shall hereafter have occasion to speak more at length, set out about this time for Carlsbad.

    Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete |Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

  • It was the love-bairn of a dead mother, brought up in the kindly Highland fashion, free of every gimel and kail-pot.

    John Splendid |Neil Munro

British Dictionary definitions for gimel

gimel
/ (ˈɡɪməl, Hebrew ˈɡiːmɛl) /

noun

the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ג) transliterated as g or, when final, gh

Word Origin for gimel

literally: camel