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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.
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?"
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).
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.
