different between alef vs aleph

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.l?f/

Noun

alef (plural alefs)

1. Alternative form of aleph

Anagrams

• Lafe, Leaf, feal, flea, leaf

Catalan

Noun

alef f (plural alefs)

1. The Hebrew letter ??.

Finnish

Noun

alef

1. aleph (first letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ??????? (?lep?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lef/
• Hyphenation: à?lef

Noun

alef m (invariable)

1. aleph, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?

Related terms

• alfa

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• álef, aleph

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ?????. Doublet of alfa.

Noun

alef m (plural alefs)

1. aleph (first letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

Spanish

Noun

alef m (plural alefs)

1. Alternative form of álef

English

Alternative forms

• alef (Hebrew, Persian)
• alif (Arabic)
• alaph (Syriac), olaph (Western Syriac)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ???? (álef), with a Hellenized ph spelling due to influence from alpha.

Noun

aleph (plural alephs)

1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician ????? (?, ?aleph), Aramaic ????? (?), Classical Syriac ?? ('?laph), Hebrew ?? (aleph) and Arabic ?? (?alif).

Derived terms

Related terms

• alpha

Translations