آ
See also: أ [U+0623 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE], ٵ [U+0675 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA ALEF], ا [U+0627 ARABIC LETTER ALEF], اً, ٱ [U+0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA], إ [U+0625 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW], and ا-
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Arabic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Letter
آ • (ʾalif maddah)
- Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.
Particle
آ • (ʾā-)
- A form of the initial interrogative particle that indicates a yes-or-no question. As it is written together with the following word, when this word begins with ال (al-, “the”) they are orthographically morphed together and written with a مَدَّة (madda) diacritic instead of maintaining both.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 10:59:
- قُلۡ أَرَءَيۡتُم مَّاۤ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّٰهُ لَكُم مِّن رِّزۡقࣲ فَجَعَلۡتُم مِّنۡهُ حَرَامࣰا وَحَلَـٰلࣰا قُلۡ ءَاۤللَّهُ أَذِنَ لَكُمۡ ۖ أَمۡ عَلَى ٱللَّٰهِ تَفۡتَرُونَ
- qul ʔa-raʔaytum mā ʔanzala llāhu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʕaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qul ʔāllāhu ʔaḏina lakum ʔam ʕalā llāhi taftarūna
- Sahih International: Say, "Have you seen what Allah has sent down to you of provision of which you have made [some] lawful and [some] unlawful?" Say, "Has Allah permitted you [to do so], or do you invent [something] about Allah?"
Kalasha
Etymology
From Sanskrit अहम् (ahám), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm.
Pronoun
آ (Latin a)
- I (nominative)
See also
singular | plural | ||
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1st person | a / آ | ábi / آبی | |
2nd person | tu / تُو | ábi / آبی | |
3rd person | near | ía / اِیا | émi / ایمی |
far | ása / آسا | éḷi / ایࣇی | |
absent | se / سے | te / تے |
Kashmiri
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Letter
آ • (ā)
Forms
The vowel آ in its initial form is آ , middle form ا and final form ا
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aː/
Particle
آ • (ā) (Devanagari आ)
Khowar
Pronunciation
Letter
آ (lambā ālif)
- The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
See also
Pahari-Potwari
Pronunciation 1
- (phr) IPA(key): /äː/
Etymology
Alternative forms
- (letter name): الف مدہ (alif maddah)
Pronunciation 2
- (letter name): IPA(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/
Letter
آ (alif madda)
- A vowel of Pahari-Potwari, written in the Shahmukhi script.
Pashto
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /alepˈməd̪ˈɑ/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɑ/
Letter
آ • (alifmadā)
Forms
Isolated form | Final form |
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آ | ـآ |
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian, Dari, phoneme) IPA(key): [ʔɑː]
- (Iran, phoneme) IPA(key): [ʔɒː]
Audio (Iran): (file)
- (letter name)
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔa.lif mad.ˈda/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæ.lef mæd̪.d̪e]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | alif madda |
Dari reading? | alif madda |
Iranian reading? | alef madde |
Tajik reading? | alif madda |
Letter
آ • (alef madde)
Usage notes
- Used word-initially to represent the phoneme /ɑː/~/ɒː/. Since all word initial vowels are proceeded by a glottal stop, it is almost always pronounced as [ʔɑː]~[ʔɒː]. It can appear in the middle of the word, but that is uncommon and only occurs in a small number of words; such as قرآن (qor'ân/qur'ān) and کوآلا (ko'âlâ/kō'ālā).
See also
- ا
- Wikipedia article on the Perso-Arabic alphabet
- Search for entries beginning with آ
Verb
آ • (â)
- present stem form of آمدن (âmadan)
Punjabi
Pronunciation
- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /äː/
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/
Letter
آ • (alif madda)
- A vowel of Punjabi, written in the Shahmukhi script. The variant of alif used for initial /aː/.
Usage notes
- Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا, except in rare cases with certain diphthongs.
Etymology 2
Verb
آ • (ā)
Urdu
Pronunciation
Letter
آ • (alif madda)
- A vowel of Urdu, the variant of alif used for initial /aː/.
Usage notes
- Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا (-ā).
Ushojo
Pronunciation
Letter
آ (ẓegō ālif)
- The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.
See also
- Next letter: أ
Conjunction
آ (à)