aleph

Meaning

1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
2. The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.

Translations

aleph

ا

أَلِف

άλεφ

alef

ألف

alef

أليف

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɑˌlɛf/

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אלף (álef). Doublet of alpha and alif.