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]

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
آ	ـآ	ـآ	آ

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 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (letter name) /ʔa.lif mad.da/, (phoneme) /ʔaː/

Letter

آ • (ʾalif maddah) (no case)

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

Etymology 2

From أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-).

Particle

آ • (ʔā-)

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 ʔa-raʔaytum mā ʔanzala llāhu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʕaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qul ʔāllāhu ʔaḏina lakum ʔam ʕalā 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 (ahám), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm.

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
	far	ása / آسا	éḷi / ایࣇی
	absent	se / سے	te / تے

Kashmiri

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /mad/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /aː/

Letter

آ • (ā) (no case)

1. A letter of the Kashmiri alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by اَ (a) and followed by أ, a vowel.

Forms

• The vowel آ in its initial form is آ, middle form ا and final form ا.

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) (no case)

1. A letter of the Khowar alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ا and followed by أ, the first variant letter of alif.

Ottoman Turkish

Letter

آ • (medli elif, elif-i medde) (no case)

1. It is used to represent the sound “a” in words written in Ottoman Turkish. In words of Turkish origin, it appears only at the beginning of a sentence.

Pahari-Potwari

Pronunciation 1

• (phr) IPA^(key): /äː/

Alternative forms

• (letter name): الف مدہ (alif maddah)

Pronunciation 2

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/

Letter

آ (alif madda) (no case)

1. A vowel of Pahari-Potwari, written in the Shahmukhi script.

Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /a.ˈlep ˌmɑ.da/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɑ/

Letter

آ • (alifmadā) (no case)

1. alif with madda, a form of ا, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian, phoneme) IPA^(key): /ʔaː/
• (Dari, phoneme) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː]
• (Iran, phoneme) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː]

  • Audio (Iran):

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• (letter name)

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.li.fi mad.ˈda/

 

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

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɪ.fɪ mäd̪.d̪ä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɪ.fɪ mäd̪.d̪ä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.li.fi mäd̪.d̪ä]

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

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

Readings
Classical reading?	alif-i madda
Dari reading?	alif-i madda
Iranian reading?	alef-e madde
Tajik reading?	alif-i madda

Letter

آ • (alif-i madda / alef-e madde) (no case)

1. Alif maddah

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 less common; words such as قرآن (qur'ān / ġor'ân) and کوآلا (kō'ālā / ku'âlâ) and compounds like سرآغاز (sar'āġāz / sar'âġâz)

See also

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

Verb

آ • (ā / â)

1. present stem form of آمدن (âmadan)

Punjabi

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /äː/

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• Gurmukhi letter: ਆ (ā)
• (letter name): الف مدہ (alif maddah)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/

Letter

آ • (alif madda) (no case)

1. A vowel of Punjabi, written in the Shahmukhi script. The variant of alif used for initial /aː/.

Usage notes

• Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا, except in rare cases with certain diphthongs.

Etymology 2

Verb

آ • (ā)

1. inflection of آݨا (āṇā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular familiar imperative

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /əlif məd̪ːə/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /aː/

Letter

آ • (alif madda) (no case)

1. A vowel of Urdu, the variant of alif used for initial /aː/.

Usage notes

• Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا (-ā).

Ushojo

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ʐeːɡoː.alif/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /à/

Letter

آ (ẓegō ālif) (no case)

1. The first letter of the Ushojo alphabet, written in the Arabic script; followed by أ.

Conjunction

آ (à)

1. and

   Synonym: گا (gā)