آ

Pronunciation

 * (letter name)
 * (phoneme)

Letter

 * 1) Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence.

Particle

 * 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  they are orthographically morphed together and written with a  diacritic instead of maintaining both.

Etymology
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I nominative

Letter

 * 1) a vowel of Kashmiri.

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

Particle

 * 1) yes, yeah

Letter

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

Letter

 * 1) alif with madda, a form of, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet

Letter

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

Usage notes

 * Used word-initially to represent the phoneme . Since all word initial vowels are proceeded by a glottal stop, it is almost always pronounced as . It can appear in the middle of the word, but that is uncommon and only occurs in a small number of words; such as and.

Alternative forms

 * letter:

Letter

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

Usage notes

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

Letter

 * 1) A vowel of Urdu, the variant of alif used for initial.

Usage notes

 * Used to represent the phoneme . It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for being.

Letter

 * 1) The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.

Conjunction

 * 1) and