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The letter b of the Arabic alphabet.
▪ The name of the second letter of the Ar alphabet, bāʔ seems to be a short “calling name” for what in other langs has been preserved, e.g., Engl beta and alphabet, from Grk bēta, second letter of the Grk alphabet, from Phoen *bēt ‘house; second letter of the Phoen alphabet’, akin to Ar ↗bayt.
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