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# fricative

adjective

«fricative» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: In the study of Hebrew letters, some letters have a hard form and a soft, fricative form; the book on letters treats the "double" letters as having two sounds.

### Meaning

describing a speech sound made by pushing air through a narrow gap, like f, s or th [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fricative/#m1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fricative» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fricative/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fricative» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fricative.html) on Mova free.