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]

ﺁ U+FE81, ﺁ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM ← ﺀ [U+FE80] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺂ → [U+FE82]

ﺂ U+FE82, ﺂ ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE FINAL FORM ← ﺁ [U+FE81] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺃ → [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 ʾa-raʾaytum mā ʾanzala l-lahu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʿaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qul ʾāllāhu ʾaḏina lakum ʾam ʿalā 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 (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.

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
3rd person (far)		ása / آسا‎	éḷi / ایࣇی‎
3rd person (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 (ạ)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aː/

Particle

آ • (ā) (Devanagari आ‎)

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

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, Dari) (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ʔɑː]
• (Iranian Persian) (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ʔɒː]

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• (letter name)

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.lif mað.da]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.lef mæd̪.d̪e]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]

Readings
Classical reading?	alif maḏḏa
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

• ا‎
• Wikipedia article on the Perso-Arabic alphabet
• Search for entries beginning with آ

Verb

آ • (â)

1. present stem form of آمدن‎ (âmadan)

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 (gā)