[letter] Waw (wāw, also vau or vav) is the sixth letter of the Northwest Semitic family of scripts, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic (`sixth` in abjadi order; it is 27th in modern Arabic order). In Arabic and thus in most Semitic languages it represents the sound w. Vav literally means hook/peg/spear. ==Hebrew Waw=... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waw_(letter)