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of a hand (in both modern Arabic and Hebrew, kaph rtl=yes means "palm" or "grip"), though in Arabic the a in the name of the letter (???) is pronounced longer than the a in the word meaning "palm" (??). The small ? above the ''kaf'' in its final and isolated forms was originally alamatu-l-ihmal, but became a permanent part of the letter. Previously this sign could also appear above the medial form of kaf, instead of the stroke on its

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