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-

آ U+0622, آ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
Composition:ا [U+0627] + ◌ٓ [U+0653]
ء
[U+0621]
Arabic أ
[U+0623]
U+FE81, ﺁ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM

[U+FE80]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FE82]
U+FE82, ﺂ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE FINAL FORM

[U+FE81]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FE83]

Arabic

Etymology

أَ (ʔa) +‎ الْ (al-)

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ʔa.lif mad.da/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ʔaː/

Letter

آ • (ʾalif maddah)

  1. Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.

Particle

آ • (ʾā-)

  1. 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)

  1. I (nominative)

See also

Kalasha personal pronouns
singular plural
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 name): IPA(key): /mad/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /aː/

Letter

آ • (ā)

  1. a vowel of Kashmiri.
Forms

The vowel آ in its initial form is آ , middle form ا and final form ا

See also
  • Previous vowel: اَ (a)
  • Next vowel : أ ()

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aː/

Particle

آ • (ā) (Devanagari )

  1. yes, yeah

Khowar

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ləmba.alif/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /aː/

Letter

آ (lambā ālif)

  1. The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form
آ ـآ

See also

  • Previous letter: ا
  • Next letter: أ

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)

  1. A vowel of Pahari-Potwari, written in the Shahmukhi script.

Pashto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /alepˈməd̪ˈɑ/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɑ/

Letter

آ • (alifmadā)

  1. alif with madda, a form of ا, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet

Forms

Isolated form Final form
آ ـآ

Persian

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Persian, Dari, phoneme) IPA(key): [ʔɑː]
  • (Iran, phoneme) IPA(key): [ʔɒː]
    • Audio (Iran):(file)
  • (letter name)
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]

Readings
Classical reading? alif madda
Dari reading? alif madda
Iranian reading? alef madde
Tajik reading? alif madda

Letter

آ • (alef madde)

  1. alef-e madde
  2. â-ye bâ-kolâh (آی باکلاه = Alef with hat)

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

Verb

آ • (â)

  1. present stem form of آمدن (âmadan)

Punjabi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • Gurmukhi letter: (ā)
  • (letter name): الف مدہ (alif maddah)

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/

Letter

آ • (alif madda)

  1. 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)

  1. inflection of آݨا (āṇā):
    1. stem
    2. second-person singular familiar imperative

Urdu

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /aː/

Letter

آ • (alif madda)

  1. 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 ().

Ushojo

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʐeːɡoː.alif/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /à/

Letter

آ (ẓegō ālif)

  1. The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.

See also

  • Next letter: أ

Conjunction

آ (à)

  1. and
    Synonym: گا ()