Lamedh

Lamedh
Phoenician
𐤋
Hebrew
ל
Aramaic
𐡋
Syriac
ܠ
Arabic
ل
Phonemic representationl, (ɫ)
Position in alphabet12
Numerical value30
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΛ
LatinL
CyrillicЛ

Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic lām ل‎, Aramaic lāmaḏ 𐡋, Hebrew lāmeḏ ל‎, Phoenician lāmd 𐤋, and Syriac lāmaḏ ܠ. Its sound value is [l].

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л).