آ
See also: أ [U+0623 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE], ٵ [U+0675 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA ALEF], ا [U+0627 ARABIC LETTER ALEF], اً, ٱ [U+0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA], إ [U+0625 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW], and ا-
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Arabic
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ • (ʾalif maddah)
- Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.
Particle
editآ • (ʾā-)
- A form of the initial interrogative particle that indicates a yes-or-no question. As it is written together with the following word, when this word begins with ال (al-, “the”) they are orthographically morphed together and written with a مَدَّة (madda) diacritic instead of maintaining both.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 10:59:
- قُلۡ أَرَءَيۡتُم مَّاۤ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّٰهُ لَكُم مِّن رِّزۡقࣲ فَجَعَلۡتُم مِّنۡهُ حَرَامࣰا وَحَلَـٰلࣰا قُلۡ ءَاۤللَّهُ أَذِنَ لَكُمۡ ۖ أَمۡ عَلَى ٱللَّٰهِ تَفۡتَرُونَ
- qul ʾa-raʾaytum mā ʾanzala l-lahu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʿaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qul ʾāllāhu ʾaḏina lakum ʾam ʿalā llāhi taftarūna
- Sahih International: Say, "Have you seen what Allah has sent down to you of provision of which you have made [some] lawful and [some] unlawful?" Say, "Has Allah permitted you [to do so], or do you invent [something] about Allah?"
Kalasha
editEtymology
editFrom Sanskrit अहम् (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.
Pronoun
editآ (Latin a)
- I (nominative)
See also
editKashmiri
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ • (ā)
Forms
editThe vowel آ in its initial form is آ , middle form ا and final form ا
See also
editEtymology 2
editPronunciation
editParticle
editKhowar
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ (lambā ālif)
- The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.
Forms
editIsolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
See also
editPashto
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ • (alifmadā)
- alif with madda, a form of ا, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet
Forms
editIsolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
Persian
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔa.lif mað.da]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæ.lef mæd̪.d̪e]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | alif maḏḏa |
Dari reading? | alif madda |
Iranian reading? | alef madde |
Tajik reading? | alif madda |
Letter
editآ • (alef madde)
Usage notes
edit- Used word-initially to represent the phoneme /ɑː/~/ɒː/. Since all word initial vowels are proceeded by a glottal stop, it is almost always pronounced as [ʔɑː]~[ʔɒː]. It can appear in the middle of the word, but that is uncommon and only occurs in a small number of words; such as قرآن (qor'ân/qur'ān) and کوآلا (ko'âlâ/kō'ālā).
See also
editVerb
editآ • (â)
Punjabi
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ • (alif madda)
- A vowel of Punjabi, written in the Shahmukhi script. The variant of alif used for initial /aː/.
Usage notes
edit- Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا, except in rare cases with certain diphthongs.
Urdu
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ • (alif madda)
- A vowel of Urdu, the variant of alif used for initial /aː/.
Usage notes
edit- Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا (-ā).
Ushojo
editPronunciation
editLetter
editآ (ẓegō ālif)
- The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.
See also
edit- Next letter: أ
Conjunction
editآ (à)
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