alif

English

Alif

Etymology

From Arabic أَلِف (ʔalif). Doublet of aleph.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lɪf/

Noun

alif (plural alifs)

1. The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا (ʔalif).

Translations

first letter of the Arabic alphabet

• Arabic: أَلِف (ar) m (ʔalif), (symbol) ا (ar)
• Armenian: ալեֆ (alef), ալիֆ (alif)
• Azerbaijani: əlif
• Belarusian: а́ліф m (álif)
• Bengali: আলেফ (aleph)
• Catalan: àlif (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿利夫 (ālìfu), 艾利夫 (àilìfu)

• Dargwa: алип (alip)
• French: alif (fr) m
• Georgian: ალეფი (alepi), ალიფი (alipi)
• German: Alef m, Alif m
• Hebrew: אָלֶף (he) f (álef)
• Hindi: अलिफ़ m (alif), अलिफ m (aliph), अलफ (hi) m (alaph)
• Indonesian: alef, alif (id)
• Japanese: アリフ (arifu)
• Kazakh: әлиф (älif)
• Korean: 알리프 (ko) (allipeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: elîf (ku)

• Macedonian: алеф m (alef)
• Malay: alif (ms)
• Pashto: الف (ps) m (alif)
• Persian: اَلِف (fa) (alef)
• Rohingya: alif
• Russian: а́лиф (ru) m (álif)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алеф m

  Roman: alef m

• Tajik: алиф (alif)
• Tausug: alip
• Turkish: elif (tr)
• Ukrainian: а́ліф m (álif)
• Urdu: اَلِف (ur) m (alif)
• Uyghur: ئېلىپ (ëlip), ئەلف (elf)
• Uzbek: alif (uz)

See also

• aleph

Anagrams

• -afil, Fail, fail, fila

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَلِف (ʔalif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lif/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

alif m (plural alif)

1. alif (Arabic letter)

Anagrams

• fila

Hausa

Hausa numbers ^(edit)

	1,000
Cardinal: dubū     Arabic-derived cardinal: alìf

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَلْف (ʔalf).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔá.lìf/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔá.lɪ̀ɸ]

Numeral

alìf f

1. thousand (principally used in dates)

   Synonym: dubū

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic أَلِف (ʔalif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lif/
• Rhymes: -alif
• Hyphenation: à‧lif

Noun

alif f (invariable)

1. the name of the Arabic-script letter ا

Anagrams

• -fila, fila

Northern Kurdish

Central Kurdish	ئاڵف (allif)

Etymology

From Arabic عَلَف (ʕalaf, “forage, provender, feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈlɪf/

Noun

alif m (Arabic spelling ئالف)

1. fodder, forage, feed

Declension

Declension of alif

Definite masculine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alif	alif
Construct	alifê	alifên
Oblique	alifî	alifan
Demonstrative oblique	wî alifî	wan alifan
Vocative	alifo	alifino
Indefinite masculine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alifek	alifin
Construct	alifekî	alifine
Oblique	alifekî	alifinan

Derived terms

• alif dan
• alif kirin

 

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “alif”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 5