آ

أَ‎ (ʔa) +‎ الْ‎ (al-)

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ʔa.lif mad.da/
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /ʔaː/

آ • (ʾalif maddah)

1. Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.

آ • (ʾā-)

1. 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.
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 10:59:

     ‏قُلۡ أَرَءَيۡتُم مَّاۤ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّٰهُ لَكُم مِّن رِّزۡقࣲ فَجَعَلۡتُم مِّنۡهُ حَرَامࣰا وَحَلَـٰلࣰا قُلۡ ءَاۤللَّهُ أَذِنَ لَكُمۡ ۖ أَمۡ عَلَى ٱللَّٰهِ تَفۡتَرُونَ‎

     qul ʾa-raʾaytum mā ʾanzala l-lahu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʿaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qul ʾāllāhu ʾaḏina lakum ʾam ʿalā llāhi taftarūna

     Sahih International: Say, "Have you seen what Allah has sent down to you of provision of which you have made [some] lawful and [some] unlawful?" Say, "Has Allah permitted you [to do so], or do you invent [something] about Allah?"

From Sanskrit अहम् (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.

آ (Latin a)

1. I (nominative)

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /mad/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /aː/

آ • (ā)

1. a vowel of Kashmiri.

The vowel آ in its initial form is آ , middle form ا and final form ا

• Previous vowel: اَ‎ (a)
• Next vowel : أ‎ (ạ)

• IPA^(key): /aː/

آ • (ā) (Devanagari आ‎)

1. yes, yeah

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ləmba.alif/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /aː/

آ (lambā ālif)

1. The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.

• Previous letter: ا‎
• Next letter: أ‎

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /alepˈməd̪ˈɑ/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɑ/

آ • (alifmadā)

1. alif with madda, a form of ا‎, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet

• (Dari) (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɑː/
• (Iranian Persian) (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɒː/

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آ • (alef madde)

1. alef-e madde
2. â-ye bâ-kolâh (آی باکلاه‎ = Alef with hat)

• Used word-initially to represent the phoneme /ɒː/.

• ا‎
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آ • (â)

1. present stem form of آمدن‎

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ʐeːɡoː.alif/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /à/

آ (ẓegō ālif)

1. The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.

• Next letter: أ

آ (à)

1. and

   Synonym: گا (gā)