א
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Translingual
Etymology
  
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Modification of Aramaic 𐡀 (ā, ē, “Ālef”), closely related to Syriac ܐ (“Ālap, Olaf”) and Arabic ا (ā ʾ, “alif”), ultimately from Phoenician 𐤀 (“alef”).
Letter
א
Symbol
א
See also
See also
- Appendix:Hebrew script
- Wide: ﬡ
Hebrew
Alternative forms
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Pronunciation
Letter
א • (') (Hebrew letter alef or aleph)
Usage notes
- In Modern Israeli Hebrew, א (“alef”) represents either a glottal stop (/ʔ/), or has no pronunciation besides that of the vowel attached to it. The pronunciation varies from group to group.
- א (“alef”)—along with the other guttural letters, ע (ʿ, “ayin”), ר (r, “resh”), ה (h, “he”), and ח (ḥ, “hḥêṯ”)—cannot receive a dagesh (the dot in בּ (b, “bet”), which can appear in most other Hebrew letters), although there are rare examples where the Masoretes added a dagesh to it.
- א (“alef”) is sometimes used to denote a vowel (usually /a/) in words of Aramaic and Arabic origin, in foreign names, and in some other borrowed words.
Derived terms
- מ-א׳ ועד ת׳ (miálef ve'ád tav)
- א״א (álef álef)
- סוג א׳ (sug álef)
- יום א׳ (yom álef)
- אינו יודע צורת א׳ (einó yodéa' tzurát álef)
- לא ב-א׳ רבתי (lo beálef rabbatí)
- אלפבית (álef beit)
- א׳ אפס (álef éfes)
See also
- (Hebrew script letters) א, ב, ג, ד, ה, ו, ז, ח, ט, י, כך, ל, מם, נן, ס, ע, פף, צץ, ק, ר, ש, ת
Yiddish
Letter
א • (a)
- The first letter in the Yiddish alphabet.
See also
- א (∅), אַ (a), אָ (o), ב (b), בּ (b), בֿ (v), ג (g), ד (d), דזש (dzh), ה (h), ו (u), וּ (u), וֹ (o), װ (v), ױ (oy), ז (z), זש (zh), ח (kh), ט (t), טש (tsh), י (y), יִ (i), ײ (ey), ײַ (ay), כּ (k), כ (kh), (ך (kh)), ל (l), מ (m), (ם (m)), נ (n), (ן (n)), ס (s), ע (e), פּ (p), פֿ (f), פ (f), (ף (f)), צ (ts), (ץ (ts)), ק (k), ר (r), ש (sh), שׂ (s), תּ (t), ת (s)