different between alif vs ayn

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n/

Etymology 1

A romanization of the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ? (?ayin), Phoenician (?ayin), Aramaic (??), and Syriac ? (??), Arabic ? (?ayn) (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

Noun

ayn (plural ayns)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /?/ in Semitic languages.

Etymology 2

A romanization of Kazakh ??? (aïn), the Kazakh name for the letter ? (?).

Noun

ayn (plural ayns)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of ghayn, the letter ?, representing the consonant /?/ or /?/, particularly in Kazakh.

Anagrams

• NAY, NYA, Nay, Yan, any, any%, nay, yan

Italian

Noun

ayn m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of ain

Manx

Pronoun

ayn

1. third-person singular of ayns

   in him/it

   • Cha nel ayn agh craueyn. He is reduced to a skeleton.

Derived terms

• aynsyn (emphatic)

Adverb

ayn

1. there
   • ayn as ass, there and back

Adjective

ayn

1. existent
   • ayn rish foddey, long-standing
2. present