آ

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See also: أ , ٵ , ا , اً, ٱ , إ , and ا-

آ U+0622, آ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
Composition:ا [U+0627] + ◌ٓ [U+0653]
ء
Arabic أ
U+FE81, ﺁ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FE82, ﺂ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE FINAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

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 lawful and unlawful?" Say, "Has Allah permitted you , or do you invent about Allah?"

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit अहम् (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.

Pronoun

آ (Latin a)

  1. I (nominative)

See also

Kashmiri

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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 ()

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Particle

آ (ā) (Devanagari )

  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

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 ~. 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

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 ()