aleph

Meaning

Noun

The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀, Aramaic 𐡀, Classical Syriac ܐ, Hebrew א and Arabic ا.

Origin

Borrowed from Hebrew אלף, with a Hellenized ph spelling due to influence from alpha. alpha.

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