ă

ă (upper case Ă)

1. The letter a with a breve.

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter A):   Áá  Àà  Ââ  Ǎǎ  Ăă  Ãã  Ảả  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ää  Åå  Ḁḁ  Āā  Ąą  ᶏ  Ⱥⱥ  Ȁȁ  Ấấ  Ầầ  Ẫẫ  Ẩẩ  Ậậ  Ắắ  Ằằ  Ẵẵ  Ẳẳ  Ặặ  Ǻǻ  Ǡǡ  Ǟǟ  Ȁȁ  Ȃȃ  Ɑɑ  ᴀ  Ɐɐ  ɒ  Ａａ Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜳꜳ  Ꜵꜵ  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ
• (Letters using breve sign or inverted breve sign):  Ăă  Ȃȃ  Ắắ  Ằằ  Ẵẵ  Ẳẳ  Ặặ  Ĕĕ  Ğğ  Ĭĭ  Ŏŏ  Ŭŭ

ă

1. (obsolete) The second letter of the 1927 – 1972 Malay alphabet, written in Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *a, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō.

• IPA^(key): /ɐ/

ă

1. and

   Synonym: un

• Kazimierz Polański (1971), “ə”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological dictionary of the Polabian Drevani language] (in Polish), volume 2: Ďüzd — Ľotü, Wrocław – Warszawa – Kraków – Gdańsk: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 147
• Kazimierz Polański; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “ă”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
• Reinhold Olesch (1962), “a”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1

• IPA^(key): /ə/

ă (lower case, upper case Ă)

1. The second letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ă and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ă ă,  â, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Πî, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Ș ș, T t, Ț ț, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (sound): IPA^(key): /aː/, /a/
• (sound, educated): IPA^(key): /ɤ/

ă (lower case, upper case Ă)

1. (linguistics) Letter used for transcription of Bulgarian letter Ъ / ъ.

• a
• ä
• á
• à

• Toporišič, Jože (2001), “Slovaropisna pravila”, in Slovenski pravopis (in Slovene), Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, →ISBN, page 178