Borrowed from Hebrew אלף (álef). Doublet of alpha and alif.
aleph (plural alephs)
- The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
- (mathematics) The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
- The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph.
first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and descendant script
- Arabic: أَلِف (ar) m (ʔalif), ا (ar) (symbol)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܐܠܦ f (ʾālaf), (symbol) ܐ
- Armenian: ալեֆ (alef)
- Catalan: àlef (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 阿列夫 (zh) (ālièfū), 阿利夫 (ālìfu) (Arabic letter also), 艾利夫 (àilìfu)
- Finnish: alef (fi)
- French: aleph (fr) m, alef (fr) m
- Georgian: ალეფი (alepi)
- German: Aleph n (Hebrew letter), Alef n (Hebrew letter)
- Greek: άλεφ n (álef)
- Hebrew: אָלֶף (he) f (álef), א (he) (symbol)
- Hindi: अलिफ़ (alif)
- Italian: alef m or f
- Japanese: アレフ (arefu), アリフ (arifu) (Arabic letter)
- Korean: 알레프 (ko) (allepeu), 알리프 (ko) (allipeu) (Arabic letter)
- Macedonian: алеф m (alef)
- Malay: alif (ms)
- Pashto: الف (ps) m (alíf)
- Persian:
- Dari: اَلِف (fa) (alif), ا (fa) (symbol)
- Iranian Persian: اَلِف (fa) (alef), ا (fa) (symbol)
- Polish: alef (pl) m
- Portuguese: alef m
- Russian: а́леф (ru) m (álef), а́лиф (ru) m (álif) (Arabic letter)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: алеф m
- Roman: alef m
- Spanish: álef (es) m or f
- Thai: อาเลฟ
- Turkish: elif (tr)
- Urdu: اَلِف (ur) m (alif), ا (ur) (symbol)
- Yiddish: אַלף f (alef)
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