aleph
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Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew אלף (álef), with a Hellenized ph spelling due to influence from alpha. Doublet of alpha.
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Noun
aleph (plural alephs)
- The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
- (mathematics) The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
- The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph.
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first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and descendant script
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