aleph

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• alef (Hebrew, Persian)
• alif (Arabic)
• alaph (Syriac), olaph (Western Syriac)

EtymologyEdit

Hebrew אלף‎ (álef), with a Hellenized ph spelling due to influence from alpha.

NounEdit

aleph (plural alephs)

1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician Aleph 𐤀‎ (ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀‎, Syriac ܐ‎ ('ālaph), Hebrew א‎ (“aleph”) and Arabic ا‎ (ʾalif).

SynonymsEdit

• alif (especially of Arabic alif)

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• aleph-null
• aleph-one
• aleph-zero

• alpha
• alphabet

TranslationsEdit

first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and descendant script

• Arabic: أَلِف‎‎ m (ʾalif), (symbol) ا‎‎ (ar)
• Catalan: àlef (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿列夫 (zh) (ālièfū), 阿利夫 (ālìfu) (Arabic letter also), 艾利夫 (àilìfu)

• French: aleph (fr)
• German: (Hebrew letter) Aleph n, Alef n
• Greek: άλεφ n (álef)
• Hebrew: אָלֶף‎‎ (he) f (álef), (symbol) א‎‎ (he)

• Italian: alef m, f
• Japanese: アレフ (arefu), アリフ (arifu) (Arabic letter)
• Malay: alif
• Persian: الف‎‎ (fa) (alef)
• Portuguese: alef m
• Russian: а́леф m (álef), а́лиф m (álif) (Arabic letter)
• Spanish: alef n
• Yiddish: אַלף‎‎ f (alef)