alfabet

alfabet m (definite alfabeti)

1. alphabet

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “alfabet”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Borrowed from Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əl.fəˈβɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əl.fəˈbɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [al.faˈbet]

• Audio:

  (file)

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

1. alphabet

   Synonyms: abecedari, abecé

• alfabètic
• alfabèticament
• alfabet fonètic
• Alfabet Fonètic Internacional

alfabet m (plural alfabets, feminine alfabeta, feminine plural alfabetes)

1. literate person

alfabet (feminine alfabeta, masculine plural alfabets, feminine plural alfabetes)

1. literate

• “alfabet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “alfabet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “alfabet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “alfabet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos, “alphabet”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

alfabet m

1. (Sette Comuni) alphabet

   Dar alfabet ist de stiiga bon littarn.

   The alphabet is a ladder, and the rungs are letters.

• “alfabet” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): [ˈalfabɛt]

alfabet

1. genitive plural of alfabeta

alfabet n (singular definite alfabetet, plural indefinite alfabeter)

1. alphabet

• alfabetisere

• “alfabet” in Den Danske Ordbog

• alphabet (dated)

From Middle Dutch alphabeet, from Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.faːˌbɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bet

alfabet n (plural alfabetten or alfabets, diminutive alfabetje n)

1. alphabet

   Synonym: abc

• alfabeet

• Afrikaans: alfabet
• → Papiamentu: álfabèt, alfabèt

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

1. alphabet

From Dutch alfabet, from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

• Audio:

  (file)

alfabet (plural alfabet-alfabet)

1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)

From Dutch alfabet, from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

• IPA^(key): [al.fa.bɛt]
• Rhymes: -bɛt, -ɛt
• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bet

alfabet (Jawi spelling الفابت, plural alfabet-alfabet)

1. (informal) An alphabet; an ordered set of letters used in a language.

   Synonym: abjad

   alfabet Inggeris ― English alphabet

• “alfabet” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, from Phoenician and Classical Hebrew aleph (ox) and beth (house), so called because their shape resembled or represented these objects.

• IPA^(key): /alfabeːt/, [ɑl.fɑ.ˈbeːt]

alfabet n (definite singular alfabetet, indefinite plural alfabet or alfabeter, definite plural alfabeta or alfabetene)

1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)

   Skal man lese må man kunne alfabetet.

   If you want to read you have to know the alphabet.

   Det latinske og kyrilliske alfabetet.

   The Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.

• bokstavrekke, skrift

• alfabetisk
• alfabetisere
• det internasjonale fonetiske alfabetet
• morsealfabet

• analfabet

• “alfabet” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “alfabet” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “alphabet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, from Phoenician and Classical Hebrew aleph (ox) and beth (house), so called because their shape resembled or represented these objects.

• IPA^(key): /alfabeːt/, [ɑl.fɑ.ˈbeːt]

alfabet n (definite singular alfabetet, indefinite plural alfabet, definite plural alfabeta)

1. alphabet (an ordered set of letters used in a language)

   Skal ein lese må ein kunne alfabetet.

   If you want to read you have to know the alphabet.

   Det latinske og kyrilliske alfabetet.

   The Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.

• bokstavrekkje, skrift

• alfabetisk
• alfabetisere
• det internasjonale fonetiske alfabetet
• morsealfabet

• analfabet

• “alfabet” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “alfabet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “alphabet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

From Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

• IPA^(key): [alfaˈβet]

• Audio:

  (file)

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

1. alphabet

• alfabetizar

• IPA^(key): /alfaˈbet/

alfabet m

1. alphabet

Internationalism; borrowed from German Alphabet or French alphabet, ultimately from Latin alphabētum.^[1] First attested in 1624–1639.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /alˈfa.bɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abɛt
• Syllabification: al‧fa‧bet

alfabet m inan

1. (linguistics) alphabet (collection of letters in a given order)

   Synonym: abecadło

2. alphabet, ABC (rudimentary knowledge of a given field)

   Synonyms: abc, abecadło, elementarz, podstawy

• alfabet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alfabet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “alfabet”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “alfabet”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “alfabet”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 24
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “alfabet”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “alfabet”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN

Borrowed from French alphabet, from Latin alphabetum.

• IPA^(key): /alfaˈbet/

alfabet n (plural alfabete)

1. alphabet

• alfabetiza

From Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos).

• IPA^(key): /alfǎbeːt/
• Hyphenation: al‧fa‧bet

alfàbēt m inan (Cyrillic spelling алфа̀бе̄т)

1. alphabet

• alfàbētskī

• “alfabet”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈalfaˌbeːt/

• Audio:

  (file)

alfabet n

1. alphabet

• alfabet in Svensk ordbok.

• IPA^(key): /ˌal.fa.ˈbɛːt/

• Audio:

  (file)

alfabet n

1. alphabet

• IPA^(key): /al.fa.ˈbɛ/

alfabet m (plural alfabets)

1. alphabet

Borrowed from Dutch alfabet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔlfabɛt/, /ˈalfabɛt/

alfabet n (plural alfabetten)

1. alphabet

• “alfabet”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011