Aramaic Letters: Sadeh

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The next letter of the Aramaic Alphabet is called Sadeh, pronounced SA-deh. It is not pronounced sade, to rhyme with made and paid. Sadeh corresponds to the Hebrew letter Tsade in the Hebrew Alphabet. The letters in the Aramaic Alphabet are almost identical to those in Hebrew, but have slightly different names and sometimes slightly different sounds. Whereas the Hebrew letter Tsade has a ts sound, the equivalent Aramaic letter is an s sound.

  Aramaic audio: Listen to the sound of Sadeh.

Here is what the Aramaic letter Sadeh looks like:

 
Sadeh is pronounced with an s sound, similar to the English words sit or sad.

Sadeh is the last of the five letters in the Aramaic Alphabet with a special form when they occur at the end of an Aramaic word. The final form of Sadeh looks like this:

  the form of Sadeh at the end of a word

Here is how to write Sadeh:



Both forms of Sadeh have the Gematria (numerical value) of 90.

Practise writing Sadeh in the grid lines below:










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