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# fricative

«fricative» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **describing a speech sound made by pushing air through a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

describing a speech sound made by pushing air through a narrow gap, like f, s or th [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fricative/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In the study of Hebrew letters, some letters have a hard form and a soft, fricative form; the book on letters treats the "double" letters as having two sounds.

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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