alphabet

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , from and , the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet,  and , lowercase forms  and. The Greek names derived from, the name of the letter  and , the name of the letter , so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs    and. .

Noun

 * 1) The set of letters used when writing in a language.
 * 2) A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
 * 3) A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes.
 * 4)  A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
 * 5)  An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
 * 6) The simplest rudiments; elements.
 * 7)  An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
 * 1)  An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
 * 2) The simplest rudiments; elements.
 * 3)  An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
 * 1) The simplest rudiments; elements.
 * 2)  An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
 * 1)  An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: алфавит
 * Adyghe: тхыпкъылъэ
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German: Alphabet
 * Amharic: ፊደል
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: biabcʼhíí, abcʼhí
 * Arabic: حُرُوف الْهِجَاء,, أَلِفْبَاء, أَلِفْبَائِيَّة, أَبْجَدِيَّة
 * Aramaic: ܐܠܦܒܝܬ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: বৰ্ণমালা
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: әлифба
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: алфаві́т, а́збука, альфабэ́т, абяца́дла, абэцэ́да
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: alpabeto
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, алфави́та
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: үзэг бэшэг, сагаан толгой
 * Carpathian Rusyn: алфаві́т, а́збука
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: абат
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 字母, 字母表
 * Dungan: зыму, элифбе
 * Mandarin:, , 字母系統
 * Chuvash: алфавит
 * Cornish: lytherennek, abecedari
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: އަލިފުބާ
 * Dinka: kïndegɔ̈t
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Farefare: alfabetum
 * Faroese: bókstavarað, stavrað, stavarað
 * Finnish:, , aakkosisto
 * French:
 * Gagauz: alfavit
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀλφάβητος
 * Greenlandic: alfabet, oqaasiliuutissat, qanermissarissat
 * Guaraní: achegety
 * Gujarati: મૂળાક્ષર
 * Haitian Creole: abese
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, मूलाक्षर,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: alfavitta
 * Interlingua: alphabeto
 * Irish:, aibidil
 * Old Irish: apgitir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:, alfabèt
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh: әліпби, әліппе, алфавит
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kumyk: алифба
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladino: alef bet, alfabé, alfabeta, alibé
 * Lakota: oówaptaya
 * Lao: ໂຕຫນັງສື, ແມ່ກໍກາ, ອັກສອນ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: alfabēts
 * Lithuanian:, , alfabetas
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: азбука
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, ,
 * Jawi: ابجد, حروف, اکسارا
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: alfabet
 * Manx: abbyrlhit
 * Maori: tātai reta, arapū
 * Marathi: मुळाक्षरे, वर्णमाला
 * Middle Dutch:
 * Middle English: abece
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: цагаан толгой
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠲᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠢ
 * Navajo: saad bee álʼíní, áábée
 * Nepali: वर्णमाला
 * Northern Sami: alfabēhta
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: alfabet
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: аꙁъбоукꙑ, азъбоукꙑ
 * Old East Slavic: азбукꙑ
 * Old English: stæfrof
 * Old Norse: stafróf
 * Oromo: qubee
 * Ossetian: абетӕ, алфавит
 * Pashto:
 * Pennsylvania German: Aa-Be-Ze
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: abc,, , ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਵਰਨਮਾਲਾ
 * Romani: alfabéto
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: aibidil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̀збука, абеце́да , алфа̀бе̄т
 * Roman:,  ,
 * Skolt Sami: alfabeʹtt
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Sami: alfabeete
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: அகரவரிசை,
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཀ་ཁ
 * Tigrinya: ፊደል
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: elipbiý
 * Udi: тӏетӏир
 * Ukrainian:, , , альфабе́т,
 * Urdu: حَرُوفِ تَہَجی, اَلِف با,
 * Uyghur: ئالفابىت, ئېلىپبە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: alfabet
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: tähistü
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Winnebago: woowagax
 * Yakut: алпабыыт, алфавит
 * Yiddish:, אַלפֿאַבעט , גלחות , אַזבוקע
 * Yup'ik: igat


 * Esperanto:

Verb

 * 1)  To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Etymology
, from, from (Α,α) and  (Β,β) (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from   and  , so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs    and.

Noun

 * 1)  set of letters considered as a group

Etymology
From, from , from (Α,α) and  (Β,β) (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from   and  , so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs    and.

Noun

 * 1) alphabet set of letters considered as a group