Resh ( IPA : /ɹɛʃ/) is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Arabic rāʾ ر , Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Hebrew rēš ר , Phoenician rēš 𐤓, and Syriac rēš ܪ. Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants : usually [ r ] or [ ɾ ] , but also [ ʁ ] or [ ʀ ] in Hebrew and North Mesopotamian Arabic .
18-552: Ratz may refer to: Ratz (political party) , a defunct political party in Israel which merged into Meretz Ratz (TV series) , a French-Canadian animated series from Xilam and Tooncan Ratz (comic strip) , in The Beano Erwin Ratz , (1898-1973), an Austrian musicologist and music theorist László Rátz , Hungarian mathematics high school teacher Mount Ratz ,
36-730: A dagesh . There are a handful of exceptions to this rule. In the Yemenite tradition, Resh is treated as most other consonants in that it can receive a dagesh hazak under certain circumstances. In the most widely accepted version of the Hebrew Bible , there are 17 instances of Resh being marked with a dagesh. The list is: 1 Samuel 1:6, 1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 17:25, 2 Kings 6:32, Jeremiah 39:12, Ezekiel 16:4 [×2], Habakkuk 3:13, Psalms 52:5, Proverbs 3:8, Proverbs 11:21, Proverbs 14:10, Proverbs 15:1, Job 39:9 (? ), Song of Songs 5:2, Ezra 9:6, 2 Chronicles 26:10 (? ) In gematria , Resh represents
54-581: A minister without portfolio . This was one of the few periods in Israel's political history when no religious parties were part of the coalition. The arrangement lasted for a few months only and when the National Religious Party joined the coalition, Ratz left it. In 1975 the party merged with Aryeh Eliav , an independent MK who had broken away from the Alignment, to form a new party, Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement . However, it broke up
72-545: A uvular trill [ ʀ ] (the last of which is only found in a few modern varieties ). It is pronounced as a postalveolar approximant [ ɹ̠ ] in the traditional dialect of Fes . The Unicode standard for Arabic scripts also lists a variant with a full stroke (Unicode character U+075b: ݛ ), suggesting that this form is used in certain Northern and Western African languages and some dialects in Pakistan . In
90-742: A mountain in Canada Rätzsee , a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Ratz , a 2000 Showtime original film Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ratz . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ratz&oldid=1221240282 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
108-462: A one-to-three ratio, bringing with them Ran Cohen among others. The elections were an improvement on the previous two, and saw the party win three seats. During the Knesset session, the party gained another two seats when Yossi Sarid and Mordechai Virshubski joined, defecting from the Alignment and Shinui respectively. The party retained its five-seat strength in the 1988 elections . Prior to
126-516: A while it also supported electoral reform. In its first test, the 1973 elections , the party received 2% of the vote and won three seats in the Knesset , which were taken by Aloni, new American immigrant Marcia Freedman , and Boaz Moav . The party soon gained the popular name Ratz, as it used the letters Resh - Tzadik on the election ballot paper. Following Golda Meir 's resignation, the party joined Yitzhak Rabin 's government and Aloni served as
144-654: Is a right-angle of two strokes. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek rho (Ρ/ρ), Etruscan [REDACTED] , Latin R , Glagolitic Ⱃ , and Cyrillic Р . Resh is usually assumed to mean head, as in Proto-Semitic *raʾ(i)š- and descendants. The letter is named rāʾ راء in Arabic. It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: It ranges between an alveolar trill [ r ] , an alveolar flap [ ɾ ] , and
162-497: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ratz (political party) Ratz ( Hebrew : רָצ ), officially the Movement for Civil Rights and Peace (Hebrew: הַתְּנוּעָה לִזְכוּיוֹת הָאֶזְרָח וְלַשָּׁלוֹם , HaTnua'a LeZkhuyot HaEzrah VeLaShalom ) was a left-wing political party in Israel that focused on human rights , civil rights and women's rights . It
180-519: Is quite similar to the letter dalet (and its equivalents). In the Syriac alphabet , the letters became so similar that now they are only distinguished by a dot: resh has a dot above the letter, and the otherwise identical dalet has a dot below the letter. In the Arabic alphabet, rāʼ has a longer tail than dāl . In the Aramaic and Hebrew square alphabet, resh is a rounded single stroke while dalet
198-423: The 1992 elections the party formed an alliance with Mapam and Shinui named Meretz , whilst keeping their independent status within the union. The new party was a success, winning 12 seats, two more than the parties had held in the previous Knesset. Prior to the 1996 elections , Aloni finally lost the leadership of the party, defeated by Sarid in internal elections. She retired from politics immediately. In 1997
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#1732776669129216-547: The Black Panthers ) to form the Left Camp of Israel . Ratz performed poorly in the 1977 elections, winning only one seat, which Aloni took. The 1981 elections were a repeat, with only Aloni representing the party in the Knesset. During the Knesset session she merged the party into the Alignment, but then broke away again before the term ended. Before the 1984 elections the Left Camp of Israel merged into Ratz in
234-506: The Palestine Liberation Organization from its birth. The party advocated secularism , the separation of religion and state, and civil rights , most notably women's rights, a topic that was very close to Aloni. It was also a notable fighter against corruption and for a written constitution , and Aloni was the initiator of the Knesset sub-committee for basic laws (Israel's equivalent of a constitution). For
252-527: The Pashto alphabet , a variant of the letter rāʾ uses a ring below for the retroflex consonant [ ɭ̆~ɽ ] and another uses dots above and below the tail for the voiced fricative [ ʐ ] or [ ʝ ] : Hebrew spelling: רֵישׁ In Hebrew , Resh ( רֵישׁ ) represents a rhotic consonant that has different realizations for different dialects: As a general rule, Resh, along with Ayin , Aleph , He , and Het , do not receive
270-712: The following year, and Aloni and Moaz reformed Ratz. Freedman did not return, instead forming the Social-Democratic Faction (later renamed the Independent Socialist Faction) with Eliav, and then breaking away again to form the Women's Party prior to the 1977 elections . Also prior to the 1977 elections, the Independent Socialist Faction merged with several other small left-wing parties ( Moked , Meri and
288-484: The merger was made official (though several Shinui members led by Avraham Poraz broke away to reform as an independent party, whilst David Zucker became an independent MK), and Ratz effectively ceased to exist. However, it remained a registered political party and submitted financial reports to the Party Registrar in 2010 and 2013. Resh In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents)
306-554: The number 200. Resh as an abbreviation can stand for Rabbi (or Rav , Rebbe , Rabban, Rabbenu, and other similar constructions). Resh may be found after a person's name on a gravestone to indicate that the person had been a Rabbi or to indicate the other use of Rav , as a generic term for a teacher or a personal spiritual guide. Resh is used in an Israeli phrase; after a child says something false, one may say "B' Shin Quf , Resh" (With Shin, Quf, Resh). These letters spell Sheqer, which
324-578: Was active from 1973 until its formal merger into Meretz in 1997. However, it remains a registered political party. The Movement for Civil Rights and Peace was formed in 1973 by Shulamit Aloni , a former MK for the Alignment , 48 hours after she had left the party. As a member of the Israeli peace camp it opposed the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip and called for a peace settlement with
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