אלפבית

Simple compound of אָלֶף (álef, “Aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.”) +‎ בֵּית (bét, “Beth, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet.”) Compare Arabic أَلِفْبَاء (ʔalifbāʔ).

Attested since at least 1575, in Wolfgang Prommer's Catalogus Hebraicus, an index of Hebrew works at his workplace, the Bavarian State Library.^[1]

אָלֶפְבֵּית • (alefbét) m

1. alphabet

• אָלֶף־בֵּית, אָלֶ״ף־בֵּי״ת

• אָלֶפְבֵּית לָטִינִי (alefbét latíni, “Latin alphabet”)
• אָלֶפְבֵּית עִבְרִי (alefbét 'ivrí, “Hebrew alphabet”)
• אָלֶפְבֵּית פוֹנֵטִי בֵּין־לְאֻמִּי (alefbét fonéti bein-l'umí)