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Etymology
Modification of Aramaic, closely related to Syriac and Arabic , ultimately from Phoenician.

Letter

 * 1) The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  ℵ (a transfinite cardinal number)

Letter

 * 1) Aleph or alef: the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, coming before.
 * 2) The numeral 1 in Hebrew numbering.

Usage notes

 * In Modern Israeli Hebrew, represents either a glottal stop, or has no pronunciation besides that of the vowel attached to it. The pronunciation varies from group to group.
 * —along with the other guttural letters,, , , and —cannot receive a dagesh (the dot in , which can appear in most other Hebrew letters), although there are rare examples where the Masoretes added a dagesh to it.
 * is sometimes used to denote a vowel (usually ) in words of Aramaic and Arabic origin, in foreign names, and in some other borrowed words.

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Letter

 * 1) The first letter in the Yiddish alphabet, שטומער־אַלף precedes or  to indicate a word-initial vowel