â

See also Appendix:Variations of "a"

Translingual

Character	â
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Latin-1 Supplement	U+00E2

Letter

â lower case (upper case Â)

1. The letter a with a circumflex.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter A):   Áá  Àà  Ââ  Ǎǎ  Ăă  Ãã  Ảả  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ää  Åå  Ḁḁ  Āā  Ąą  ᶏ  Ⱥⱥ  Ȁȁ  Ấấ  Ầầ  Ẫẫ  Ẩẩ  Ậậ  Ắắ  Ằằ  Ẵẵ  Ẳẳ  Ặặ  Ǻǻ  Ǡǡ  Ǟǟ  Ȁȁ  Ȃȃ  Ɑɑ  ᴀ  Ɐɐ  ɒ  Ａａ Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜳꜳ  Ꜵꜵ  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ
• (Letters using circumflex accent):  Ââ  Ấấ  Ầầ  Ẫẫ  Ẩẩ  Ậậ  Ĉĉ  Ḓḓ  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ếế  Ĝĝ  Ĥĥ  Îî  Ĵĵ  Ôô  Ồồ  Ŝŝ  Ûû  Ŵŵ  Ŷŷ  Ẑẑ

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French

Letter

â (lower case, upper case A, alternate usage Â)

1. A with circumflex, a letter used in French spelling, originally representing the sound /ɑ/.

Usage notes

• Accents usage on capital letters is variable. Quebec usage is normally to put capitals, European usage usually does not put capitals.

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) âsht
• (Standard, Tosk) ësht, është

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɑ̃]

Verb

â

1. (Gheg) is (third-person singular present indicative of jam)

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Portuguese

Etymology

The letter a with a circumflex.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɐ/, [ɐ], [ɜ], [ə]
• (preceding coda ‘n’ or ‘m’) IPA: /ɐ̃/, [ɐ̃], [ɜ̃], [ə̃]
• Always stressed.

Letter

â

1. A letter "a" which is stressed and placed in the penultimate syllable of a noun that ends in another a.
   • 2007, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Rocco, page 9:

     [...] a poucos metros de distância [...]

     [...] from few meters of distance [...]

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɨ.din.a]

Letter

â (capital, lowercase Â)

1. The third letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /ɨ/. Preceded by ă and followed by b.

Usage notes

See Â

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Sicilian

Article

â f sg. (pl. î)

1. (definite article, spoken only) the, colloquial form of la

The Sicilian definite article
	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	lu, û	la, â
Plural	li, î	li, î

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Welsh

Preposition

â

1. with

Usage notes

 traditionally triggers the aspirate mutation, but in speech this may be absent.

See also

• gyda
• efo

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Xavante

Noun

â

1. water