𑀆
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Translingual
Letter
𑀆 (ā)
- the second vowel of the Brahmi script
Descendants
- Gupta:
,
,
,
(ā)
- Nagari:
(ā)
- Devanagari: आ (ā)
- Gujarati: આ (ā)
- Nandinagari:
- Kalinga:
- Oriya: ଆ (a)
- Siddham:
(ā)
- Traditional Assamese:
- Bengali: আ (a)
- Traditional Assamese:
- Nepali scripts:
- Ranjana:
(ā)
- Ranjana:
- Sharada:
(ā)
- Landa scripts:
- Gurmukhi: ਆ (ā)
- Devashesha:
- Takri:
- Landa scripts:
- Nagari:
- Southern Brahmi:
- Bhattiprolu:
- Telugu: ఆ (ā)
- Kadamba:
- Kannada: ಆ (ā)
- Pallava:
(ā)
- Malayalam: ആ (ā)
- Tamil: ஆ (ā)
- Bhattiprolu:
- Tocharian:
(ā)
Old Tamil
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *ā.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑː/
Noun
𑀆 (ā)
- cow; the female of an ox
Descendants
- Tamil: ஆ (ā)
References
- Burrow, T.; Emeneau, M. B. (1984), “ā,%20āṉ”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.