different between gimel vs gemel

English

Etymology

From Hebrew ????? (gimel); ultimately from Proto-Semitic word for a weapon which was debatably either a staff sling or a throwing stick.

Noun

gimel (plural gimels)

1. The third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac).

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Anagrams

• Gleim

Finnish

Noun

gimel

1. gimel (third letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

From Hebrew ?????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??im?l]
• Rhymes: -?l
• Hyphenation: gi?mel

Noun

gimel (plural gimelek)

1. gimel (the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??m?l/
• Rhymes: -?m?l

Noun

gemel (plural gemels)

1. (now rare) A twin (also attributively).
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 197:

     half a million which Demon considered henceforth as a loan his cousin should certainly refund him if sanity counted for something on this gemel planet.

2. (heraldry) One of a pair of small bars placed together.
   • 1698, John Strype, Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith

     two gemells silver between two griffins passant

3. (historical) A finger ring which splits into two horizontally.

Adjective

gemel (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Coupled; paired.

   Bars gemel, or two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.