different between alif vs aleph

English

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?alif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.l?f/

Noun

alif (plural alifs)

1. The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ?? (?alif).

Translations

See also

• aleph

Anagrams

• -afil, Fail, fail, fila

French

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?alif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lif/

Noun

alif m (plural alif)

1. alif (Arabic letter)

Anagrams

• fila

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?alf).

Numeral

alìf f

1. thousand (principally used in dates)

   Synonym: dubu

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?alif).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lif/, [äl?if]
• Hyphenation: a?lif

Noun

alif f (invariable)

1. The name of the Arabic-script letter ?

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ???? (?alaf, “forage, provender, feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?f/

Noun

alif m

1. fodder, forage, feed

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “alif”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

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