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
Etymology
أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)
Pronunciation
- (letter name) IPA(key): /ʔa.lif mad.da/
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ʔaː/
Letter
آ • (ʾalif maddah)
- Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.
Particle
آ • (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?"
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Kalasha
Etymology
From Sanskrit अहम् (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.
Pronoun
آ (Latin a)
- I (nominative)
See also
Kalasha personal pronouns
singular | plural | ||
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1st person | a / آ | ábi / آبی | |
2nd person | tu / تُو | ábi / آبی | |
3rd person (near) | ía / اِیا | émi / ایمی | |
3rd person (far) | ása / آسا | éḷi / ایࣇی | |
3rd person (absent) | se / سے | te / تے |
Kashmiri
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /mad/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /aː/
Letter
آ • (ā)
- a vowel of Kashmiri.
Forms
The vowel آ in its initial form isآ , middle form ا and final form ا
See also
- Previous vowel: اَ (a)
- Next vowel : أ (ạ)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aː/
Particle
آ • (ā) (Devanagari आ)
- yes, yeah
Khowar
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ləmba.alif/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /aː/
Letter
آ (lambā ālif)
- The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
See also
- Previous letter: ا
- Next letter: أ
Pashto
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /alepˈməd̪ˈɑ/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɑ/
Letter
آ • (alifmadā)
- alif with madda, a form of ا, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet
Forms
Isolated form | Final form |
---|---|
آ | ـآ |
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Dari) (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɑː/
- (Iranian Persian) (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɒː/
Audio (file)
Letter
آ • (alef madde)
- alef-e madde
- â-ye bâ-kolâh (آی باکلاه = Alef with hat)
Usage notes
- Used word-initially to represent the phoneme /ɒː/.
See also
- ا
- Wikipedia article on the Perso-Arabic alphabet
- Search en.wiktionary.org for articles beginning with: آ
Verb
آ • (â)
- present stem form of آمدن
Ushojo
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ʐeːgoː.alif/ invalid IPA characters (g), replace g with ɡ
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /à/
Letter
آ (ẓegō ālif)
- The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.
See also
- Next letter: أ
Conjunction
آ (à)
- and
- Synonym: گا (gā)