آ

See also: أ [U+0623 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE], 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-

Arabic

Letter

آ • (ʾalif madda)

1. Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.

Etymology

أَ (ʔa) +‎ الْ (al-)

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 مَّآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّٰهُ لَكُم مِّن رِّزۡقࣲ فَجَعَلۡتُم مِّنۡهُ حَرَامࣰا وَحَلَـٰلࣰا قُلۡ ءَآللَّهُ 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

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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

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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

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Persian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɒː/

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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 /ɒː/.

See also

• ا
• Wikipedia article on the Perso-Arabic alphabet
• Search en.wiktionary.org for articles beginning with: آ

Verb

1. present stem form of آمدن