("By Allah!" or "I swear to God!"). The word also appears, particularly in classical verse, in the construction known as wāw rubba, to introduce a description. Derived letters With an additional triple dot diacritic above waw, the letter then named ve is used to represent distinctively the consonant in Arabic-based Uyghur and Kyrgyz. in Kurdish and Beja; in Arabic-based Kazakh; in Uyghur. Thirty-fourth letter of the Azerbaijani Arabic script, represents ü . A variant of Kurdish û ; historically for Serbo-Croatian . in Uyghur. Also found in Quranic Arabic as in "prayer" for an Old Higazi merged with , in modern spelling . in Southern Kurdish. In Jawi script for . Also used in Balochi for and . Other letters See Arabic script in Unicode Hebrew Waw / Vav Hebrew spelling: or or . The letter appears with or without a hook on different sans-serif fonts, for example Arial, DejaVu Sans, Arimo, Open Sans: ו Tahoma, Alef, Heebo: ו Pronunciation in Modern Hebrew Vav has three orthographic variants, each with a different phonemic value and phonetic realisation: In modern Hebrew, the frequency of the usage of vav, out of all the letters, is about 10.00%. Vav as consonant Consonantal vav () generally represents a voiced labiodental fricative (like the English v) in Ashkenazi, European Sephardi, Persian, Caucasian, Italian and modern Israeli Hebrew, and was originally a labial-velar approximant . In modern Israeli Hebrew, some loanwords, the pronunciation of whose source contains , and their derivations, are pronounced with : – (but: – ). Modern Hebrew has no standardized way to distinguish orthographically between and . The pronunciation is determined by prior knowledge or must be derived through context. Some non standard spellings of the sound are sometimes found in modern Hebrew texts, such as word-initial double-vav: – (word-medial double-vav is both standard and common for both and , see table above) or, rarely, vav with a geresh: – . Vav with a dot on top Vav can be used as a mater lectionis for an o vowel, in which case it is known as a , which in pointed text is marked as vav with a dot above it. It is pronounced (phonemically transcribed more simply as ). The distinction is normally ignored, and the HEBREW POINT HOLAM (U+05B9) is used in all cases. The vowel can be denoted without the vav, as just the dot placed above and to