أَ(ʔa) +‎الْ(al-)

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

آ• (ʾalif maddah)

1. Alifmaddah. 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 withال(al-,“the”) they are orthographically morphed together and written with aمَدَّة(madda) diacritic instead of maintaining both.
   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,10:59:

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

     qul ʔa-raʔaytum mā ʔanzala llāhu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʕaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qulʔāllāhu ʔaḏina lakum ʔam ʕalā 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?"

FromSanskritअहम्(aham), fromProto-Indo-European*éǵh₂om.

آ (Latina)

1. I(nominative)

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

آ• (ā)

1. avowel ofKashmiri.

The vowelآ in its initial form isآ , middle formا and final formا

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

• IPA^(key):/aː/

آ• (ā) (Devanagariआ)

1. yes,yeah

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

آ (lambā ālif)

1. The first other alif letter of theKhowar abjad.

• Previous letter:ا
• Next letter:أ

• (phr)IPA^(key):/äː/

• (letter name):الف مدہ(alif maddah)

• (letter name):IPA^(key):/əlif məd̪ːə/

آ (alif madda)

1. A vowel of Pahari-Potwari, written in the Shahmukhi script.

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

آ• (alifmadā)

1. alif withmadda, a form ofا, the first letter of thePashto alphabet

• (Classical Persian,Dari, phoneme)IPA^(key):[ʔɑː]
• (Iran, phoneme)IPA^(key):[ʔɒː]

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آ• (alef madde)

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

• Used word-initially to represent the phoneme/ɑː/~/ɒː/. Since all word initial vowels are proceeded by a glottal stop, it is almost always pronounced as[ʔɑː]~[ʔɒː]. It can appear in the middle of the word, but that is uncommon and only occurs in a small number of words; such asقرآن(qor'ân/qur'ān) andکوآلا(ko'âlâ/kō'ālā).

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آ• (â)

1. present stem form ofآمدن(âmadan)

• (Standard Punjabi)IPA^(key):/äː/

• Gurmukhi letter:ਆ(ā)
• (letter name):الف مدہ(alif maddah)

• (letter name):IPA^(key):/əlif məd̪ːə/

آ• (alif madda)

1. A vowel of Punjabi, written in the Shahmukhi script. The variant of alif used for initial/aː/.

• Used to represent the phoneme/aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for/aː/ beingـَا, except in rare cases with certain diphthongs.

آ• (ā)

1. inflection ofآݨا(āṇā):
   1. stem
   2. second-personsingularfamiliarimperative

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

آ• (alif madda)

1. A vowel of Urdu, the variant of alif used for initial/aː/.

• Used to represent the phoneme/aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for/aː/ beingـَا(-ā).

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

آ (ẓegō ālif)

1. The first letter of theUshojo abjad.

• Next letter:أ

آ (à)

1. and

   Synonym:گا(gā)