# آ

| آ | U+0622, &#1570; ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE |
| Composition: | ا [U+0627] + ◌ٓ [U+0653] |
| ← ء [U+0621] | Arabic | أ → [U+0623] |
| ﺁ | U+FE81, &#65153; ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
| ← ﺀ [U+FE80] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﺂ → [U+FE82] |
| ﺂ | U+FE82, &#65154; ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
| ← ﺁ [U+FE81] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﺃ → [U+FE83] |

## Arabic
### Etymology

أَ (ʔa) +‎ الْ (al-)

### Pronunciation

* (letter name) IPA: /ʔa.lif mad.da/
* (phoneme) IPA: /ʔaː/

### Letter

آ • (ʾalif maddah)
* Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.

### Particle

آ • (ʾā-)
* 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 ال (al-, “the”) they are orthographically morphed together and written with a مَدَّة (madda) diacritic instead of maintaining both.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 10:59:قُلۡ أَرَءَيۡتُم مَّاۤ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّٰهُ لَكُم مِّن رِّزۡقࣲ فَجَعَلۡتُم مِّنۡهُ حَرَامࣰا وَحَلَـٰلࣰا قُلۡ ءَاۤللَّهُ أَذِنَ لَكُمۡ ۖ أَمۡ عَلَى ٱللَّٰهِ تَفۡتَرُونَqul ʔa-raʔaytum mā ʔanzala llāhu lakum min rizqin fa-jaʕaltum minhu ḥarāman wa-ḥalālan qul ʔāllāhu ʔaḏina lakum ʔam ʕalā llāhi taftarūnaSahih International: Say, "Have you seen what Allah has sent down to you of provision of which you have made [some] lawful and [some] unlawful?" Say, "Has Allah permitted you [to do so], or do you invent [something] about Allah?"

## Kalasha
### Etymology

From Sanskrit अहम् (aham), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om.

### Pronoun

آ (Latin a)
* I (nominative)

#### See also
## Kashmiri
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /mad/
* (phoneme): IPA: /aː/

#### Letter

آ • (ā)
* a vowel of Kashmiri.

##### Forms

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

##### See also

* Previous vowel: اَ (a)
* Next vowel : أ (ạ)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aː/

#### Particle

آ • (ā) (Devanagari आ)
* yes, yeah

## Khowar
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ləmba.alif/
* (phoneme): IPA: /aː/

### Letter

آ (lambā ālif)
* The first other alif letter of the Khowar abjad.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| آ | ـآ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: ا
* Next letter: أ

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /alepˈməd̪ˈɑ/
* (phoneme): IPA: /ɑ/

### Letter

آ • (alifmadā)
* alif with madda, a form of ا, the first letter of the Pashto alphabet

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| آ | ـآ |

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian, Dari, phoneme) IPA: [ʔɑː]
* (Iran, phoneme) IPA: [ʔɒː]
** Audio (Iran):(file)
* (letter name)
* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔa.lif mað.da]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.lɪf mäd̪.d̪ä]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæ.lef mæd̪.d̪e]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔä.lif mäd̪.d̪ä]

### Letter

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

#### Usage notes

* Used word-initially to represent the phoneme /ɑː/~/ɒː/. Since all word initial vowels are proceeded by a glottal stop, it is almost always pronounced as [ʔɑː]~[ʔɒː]. It can appear in the middle of the word, but that is uncommon and only occurs in a small number of words; such as قرآن (qor'ân/qur'ān) and کوآلا (ko'âlâ/kō'ālā).

#### See also

* ا
* Wikipedia article on the Perso-Arabic alphabet
* Search for entries beginning with آ

### Verb

آ • (â)
* present stem form of آمدن (âmadan)

## Punjabi
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /äː/

### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* Gurmukhi letter: ਆ (ā)
* (letter name): الف مدہ (alif maddah)

#### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /əlif məd̪ːə/

#### Letter

آ • (alif madda)
* A vowel of Punjabi, written in the Shahmukhi script. The variant of alif used for initial /aː/.

##### Usage notes

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

آ • (ā)
* inflection of آݨا (āṇā):
** stem
** second-person singular familiar imperative

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /əlif məd̪ːə/
* (phoneme): IPA: /aː/

### Letter

آ • (alif madda)
* A vowel of Urdu, the variant of alif used for initial /aː/.

#### Usage notes

* Used to represent the phoneme /aː/. It is only used word-initially, with the medial & final forms for /aː/ being ـَا (-ā).

## Ushojo
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ʐeːɡoː.alif/
* (phoneme): IPA: /à/

### Letter

آ (ẓegō ālif)
* The first letter of the Ushojo abjad.

#### See also

* Next letter: أ

### Conjunction

آ (à)
* and
    Synonym: گا (gā)