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# allophone

«allophone» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **One of the different ways of saying the same speech sound…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

One of the different ways of saying the same speech sound in a language, which does not change the meaning of a word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allophone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used by scholars to explain how a Hebrew letter could be pronounced in two ways, such as hard and soft. Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah's "double" letters, which have a hard and a soft sound, are sometimes explained this way.

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «allophone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allophone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.