alif

English

Alif

Etymology

From Arabic أَلِف‎ (ʾalif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lɪf/

Noun

alif (plural alifs)

1. The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا‎ (ʾalif).

Translations

first letter of the Arabic alphabet

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

  Mandarin: 阿利夫 (ālìfu), 艾利夫 (àilìfu)

• Dargwa: алип (alip)
• Hebrew: אָלֶף‎ (he) f (álef)
• Hindi: अलिफ़ m (alif), अलिफ m (aliph), अलफ (hi) m (alaph)

• Japanese: アリフ (arifu)
• Kazakh: әлиф (älïf)
• Korean: 알리프 (allipeu)
• Malay: alif
• Persian: الف‎ (fa) (alef)
• Rohingya: alif
• Russian: а́лиф (ru) m (álif)
• Tausug: alip

See also

• aleph

Anagrams

• -afil, Fail, fail, fila

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French

Etymology

From Arabic أَلِف‎ (ʾalif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lif/

Noun

alif m (plural alif)

1. alif (Arabic letter)

Anagrams

• fila

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَلْف‎ (ʾalf).

Numeral

alìf f

1. thousand (principally used in dates)

   Synonym: dubu

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Italian

Etymology

From Arabic أَلِف‎ (ʾalif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lif/, [äl̺if]
• Hyphenation: a‧lif

Noun

alif f (invariable)

1. The name of the Arabic-script letter ا

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Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic علف‎ (ʿalaf, “forage, provender, feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈlɪf/

Noun

alif m

1. fodder, forage, feed

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “alif”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press