Joe, That is generally how Arabic speakers spell them when transliterating them into English, since we use a phonetic transliteration method which is more modern than the one used by Hebrew speakers. The transliteration used by Hebrew speakers was formulated much earlier on, and probably has some carry over from Latin/Greek pronunciation of certain phonemes, like "ph" for instance (obviously influenced by the Greek spelling alpha).
But there's no one "proper" way to transliterate. I just use the system I've become accustomed to, which to me sounds more accurate, and which is more common for Arabic transliteration of letter names. Regards, Abu Rashid. --- In [email protected], Joe Passanise <jpassan...@...> wrote: > > Dear Abu Rashid, > Â > Why do you spell the letters:Â aleph, mem, and nun as alef, meem, noon? > I know that they are pronounced as you spelt them, but technically the name > of the letters are aleph, mem, and nun. > Â > Joe Passanise > Â > --- On Fri, 6/18/10, abur1924 <abur1...@...> wrote: > > > From: abur1924 <abur1...@...> > Subject: [ancient_hebrew] Re: The Hebrew word "Faith" > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 9:42 AM > > > Â > > > > Shalom, > > Just to give a bit of a deeper understanding of this ancient Semitic root, > the root Alef-Meem-Noon initially comes from the meaning of safety (which is > what the most basic form of the root still means in Arabic, although the > derived forms also mean faith and belief). The concept of being safe, secure, > firm, solid, robust is the very basic meaning behind this verb. From this the > meaning of faith developed, in that it refers to putting your trust in > something which is firm, solid, safe, secure, trustworthy, true. > > Regards, > Abu Rashid. > > --- In [email protected], "nutmegan30" <nutmegan30@> wrote: > > > > Can you please show me in Hebrew the word FAITH. I kow it is different from > > the Western word FAITH. But I'm having conflicting spellings for the word > > in Hebrew...what is the proper Hebrew spelling or is there more than one? > > >
