Gimel

Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoeniciangīml 𐤂, Hebrewgīmelג, Aramaicgāmal 𐡂, Syriacgāmal ܓ Arabicjīmج. Ancient North Arabian 𐪔‎, South Arabian𐩴, and Ge'ezገ.

Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, except Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive[ɡ]; in Modern Standard Arabic, it represents either a /d͡ʒ/ or /ʒ/ for most Arabic speakers except in Northern Egypt, the southern parts of Yemen and some parts of Oman where it is pronounced as the voiced velar plosive[ɡ].

In its Proto-Canaanite form, the letter may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick (spear thrower), ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph based on the hieroglyph below:

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greekgamma (Γ), the LatinC, G, Ɣ and Ȝ, and the CyrillicГ, Ґ, and Ғ.