आ
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TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
LetterEdit
आ (ā)
- The second letter and vowel of the Devanagari script.
Usage notesEdit
Its matra, used to modify the inherent vowel in a consonant, is written ा. For example, the first consonant क with the matra looks like: का.
BhojpuriEdit
ConjunctionEdit
आ (ā) (Kaithi 𑂄)
DhivehiEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
आ • (ā)
- The second vowel in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari script
HindiEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /aː/, /a/, /ɑː/, [äː]
- The first three transcriptions are very common, but the fourth is the true phonetic value.
Audio (file)
LetterEdit
आ • (ā)
See alsoEdit
- (matra): ा (ā)
- (Devanagari script letters) अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ऌ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़, श़ (Category: Hindi letters) [edit]
MarathiEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
आ • (ā)
NepaliEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): [ä]
- Phonetic Devanagari: आ
- While the first transcription is very common, the second is the true phonetic value.
LetterEdit
आ • (ā)
Old GujaratiEdit
PronounEdit
आ • (ā)
DeterminerEdit
आ • (ā)
DescendantsEdit
- Gujarati: આ (ā)
SanskritEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *HáH, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *at (whence English at) and Latin ad. The final *d in the Proto-Indo-European term regularly alternated with *h₁, the latter appearing before certain consonants originally. Sanskrit generalized the form ending in *h₁ and its fellow Indo-European cognates generalized the form ending in *d.[1]
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative scripts
- ᬆ (Balinese script)
- আ (Assamese script)
- আ (Bengali script)
- 𑰁 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀆 (Brahmi script)
- 𑌆 (Grantha script)
- આ (Gujarati script)
- ꦄꦴ (Javanese script)
- អា (Khmer script)
- ಆ (Kannada script)
- ອາ (Lao script)
- ആ (Malayalam script)
- 𑘁 (Modi script)
- အာ (Burmese script)
- 𑦡 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐁 (Newa script)
- ଆ (Oriya script)
- ꢃ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆄 (Sharada script)
- 𑖁 (Siddham script)
- ఆ (Telugu script)
- อา (Thai script)
- ཨཱ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒂 (Tirhuta script)
AdverbEdit
आ • (ā́)
PostpositionEdit
आ • (ā́)
- With senses determined by the accusative case:
- (+ accusative) near to, towards, to
- (+ accusative) for
- (+ accusative) near to, towards, to
- With senses determined by the ablative case:
- (+ ablative) from
- (+ ablative) out of, from among
- (+ ablative) from
- (+locative) in, at, on
PrepositionEdit
आ • (ā́)
- (+ accusative) up to ... exclusively
- With senses determined by the ablative case
- (+ ablative) up to, to, as far as
- 900-1100 AD; copied later, “A problematic inscription (K.1237)”, in Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies[1], volume 14 (PDF), Yosothor, published 2019, halshs-02168837, page 10:
- វិមទ*យន្តិយេភូមី*
ទាសាន្ទេវស្យបាបី*នះ
តេសវ្វ៌នរកេយាន្តុ
យាតនាមាភវក្ឞយាត៑ ៕
* Read ទ, មី and បី as ទ៌, មិ and បិ.- vimardayanti ye bhūmi
dāsāndevasya pāpinaḥ
te sarvvanarake yāntu
yātanām ā bhavakṣayāt· ॥ - May the evil ones who disturb the land and servants of the god undergo torment in every hell until the end of existence.
- vimardayanti ye bhūmi
- (+ ablative) from
- (+ ablative) up to, to, as far as
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Garnier, Romain (2014), “Nouvelles réflexions sur l’effet-Kortlandt”, in Glotta (in French), volume 90, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 140-160
SherpaEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
आ (ā)
- Used to represent the [ɑ~ʌ] sound in Sherpa. [2]