Bet, Beth, or Vet is the second
letter of many
Semitic abjads, including
Phoenician,
Aramaic,
Hebrew Syriac and
Arabic alphabet . Its value is a
voiced bilabial plosive,
IPA .This letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Hebrew: bayit, Arabic:
bayt), and appears to derive from a
Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by
acrophony.The Phoenician letter gave rise to the
Greek Beta,
Latin B, and
Cyrillic Б,
В.
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