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From Late Latin alphabētum < Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 (“‘ox’”) and beth 𐤁 (“‘house’”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
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alphabet (plural alphabets)
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
- In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
- (computer science) A, normally finite, set of distinguishable symbols.
- Let L be a regular language over the alphabet Σ.
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an ordered set of letters used in a language
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: alfabet sq(sq)
- Alsatian: Alphabet
- Arabic: حُرُوفُ الهِجَاء (ħurúːf al-hijáː’), أبْجَد (’ábʤad), الألِفْبَاء (al-’alifbáː’)
- Armenian: այբուբեն hy(hy) (aybuben)
- Asturian: alfabetu m.
- Bosnian: abeceda bs(bs) f.
- Bulgarian: азбука (ázbuka) (Cyrillic alphabet) f, алфабет (alfabet)
- Catalan: alfabet m.
- Chinese: 字母 (zìmǔ)
- Croatian: abecéda hr(hr) f., alfàbēt hr(hr) m.
- Czech: abeceda cs(cs) f.
- Danish: alfabet da(da)
- Dhivehi: އަލިފުބާ dv(dv)
- Dutch: alfabet nl(nl)
- Esperanto: alfabeto eo(eo)
- Estonian: tähestik et(et)
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Filipino: alpabeto
- Finnish: aakkoset fi(fi) pl., aakkosto fi(fi)
- French: alphabet fr(fr) m.
- Georgian: ანბანი (anbani)
- German: Alphabet de(de) n.
- Greek: αλφάβητο el(el) n. (alfávito)
- Hebrew: אלף־בית (alef-bét), אלפבית (alpabet)
- Hindi: वर्णमाला hi(hi), मूलाक्षर hi(hi)
- Hungarian: ábécé hu(hu)
- Icelandic: stafróf is(is) n., rittáknakerfi is(is) n.
- Ido: alfabeto
- Indonesian: abjad id(id), alfabet id(id)
- Interlingua: alphabeto
- Italian: alfabeto it(it) m.
- Japanese: アルファベット ja(ja) (arufabetto), 文字 ja(ja) (moji)
- Kannada: ಅಕ್ಷರಮಾಲೆ kn(kn)
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- Korean: 알파벳 (alpabet)
- Latin: alphabetum la(la) n., abecedārium la(la) n.
- Lithuanian: abėcėlė f., alfabetas m.
- Malayalam: അക്ഷരമാല ml(ml)
- Maltese: alfabet mt(mt)
- Marathi: मुळाक्षरे mr(mr), वर्णमाला mr(mr)
- Middle Dutch: please add this translation if you can
- Middle English: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: alfabet no(no) n.
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Old Norse: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: alfabet pl(pl) m.
- Portuguese: alfabeto pt(pt) m.
- Romanian: alfabet ro(ro) n.
- Russian: алфавит ru(ru) (alfavít) m., азбука ru(ru) (ázbuka) f.
- Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: азбука (Cyrillic alphabet) f, абецеда (Roman alphabet) f
- Roman: azbuka (Cyrillic alphabet) f, abeceda (Roman alphabet) f
- Slovene: abeceda sl(sl) f.
- Spanish: alfabeto es(es) m., abecedario es(es) m.
- Swedish: alfabet sv(sv) n.
- Tamil: அகரவரிசை ta(ta)
- Tatar: älifba
- Telugu: అక్షరమాల te(te) (aksharamaala)
- Thai: ตัวอักษร (tua akson), อักษร (akson)
- Ukrainian: абетка uk(uk) (abétka) f., алфавіт uk(uk) (alfávít) m., азбука uk(uk) (azbúka) f., альфабет uk(uk) (al’fabét) m.
- Urdu: حروف تہجی ur(ur)
- Volapük: lafab vo(vo)
- West Frisian: alfabet fy(fy) n.
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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From Late Latin alphabētum < Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphabētos), from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha (Α) and beta (Β), from Phoenician aleph 𐤀 (“‘ox’”) and beth 𐤁 (“‘house’”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects.
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alphabet m. (plural alphabets)
- alphabet
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