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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Letter edit
آ • (ʾalif maddah)
- Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.
Particle edit
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?"
Kalasha edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit अहम् (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.
Pronoun edit
آ (Latin a)
- I (nominative)
See also edit
Kashmiri edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Letter edit
آ • (ā)
Forms edit
The vowel آ in its initial form is آ , middle form ا and final form ا
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
Khowar edit
Pronunciation edit
Letter edit
آ (lambā ālif)
- The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.
Forms edit
Isolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
See also edit
Pashto edit
Pronunciation edit
Letter edit
آ • (alifmadā)
- alif with madda, a form of ا, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet
Forms edit
Isolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
Persian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical, Dari) (phoneme): IPA(key): [ʔɑː]
- (Iranian Persian) (phoneme): IPA(key): [ʔɒː]
Audio (file)
- (letter name)
- (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 edit
آ • (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).
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Verb edit
آ • (â)
Ushojo edit
Pronunciation edit
Letter edit
آ (ẓegō ālif)
- The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.
See also edit
- Next letter: أ
Conjunction edit
آ (à)