# a'
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Adverb

a' (not comparable)
* Alternative spelling of a (“all”) [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

#### Adjective

a' (not comparable)
* Alternative spelling of a (“all”) [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

### Etymology 2
#### Preposition

a'
* (archaic) Alternative form of a (“in”)
** 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in 1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:
    SIL. What, a' God's name, could come into the heads
    Of this people to make them rebel?
    ERN. Why, religion; that came into their heads
    A' God's name.
    GER. But what a devil made the noblemen
    Rebel? they never mind religion.

## Bambara
### Pronoun

a'
* you

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ə/

### Particle

a’
* (nonstandard) Contraction of an (used to form direct and indirect questions).
** 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di a’ bpósfadh sí é. […] Chuaidh an rí é féin síos annsin ⁊ d’fhiafraigh dhi a’ bpósfadh sí é.He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him. […] The king himself then went down, and asked her would she marry him.

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a/$^°$
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: a'

#### Contraction

a'
* (Tuscan or literary) truncation of ai (“to the m pl”, contraction of a i)

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* a, ah, a-

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a/$^*$
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: a'

#### Particle

a'
* (regional, informal) uttered before a noun to call whoever it is referred to
    A' Gigi, viè qua!Gigi, come here!
    E che me lassate qua? A' 'nfami!Are you leaving me here? You bastards!

##### Derived terms

* ahó

## Japanese
### Romanization

a'
* Rōmaji transcription of あっ

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* a, aw
* aa, aal (Shetland)

### Etymology

From Middle English all, from Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all, whole, every”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑː/, /ɔː/
* (Northern Scots, Northern Isles) IPA: /aː(l)/

### Determiner

a'
* all

### Adverb

a'
* all
** 1852–1859, Lady John Scott (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs‎:/ Like dew on the gowan lying / Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; / And like winds in summer sighing, / Her voice is low and sweet— / Her voice is low and sweet, / And she's a' the world to me, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Noun

a' (uncountable)
* all
** 1825, “Who’s at My Window”, in Allan Cunningham, compiler, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; […] In Four Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for John Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 334:There’s mirth in the barn and the ha’, the ha’, / There’s mirth in the barn and the ha’: / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride’s daftest of a’, of a’, / And our young bride’s daftest of a’.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Derived terms

* an a'

### References

* “a', adj.,adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “a'”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Article

a'
* inflection of an (“the”):
** dative or genitive singular masculine preceding g-, c-, b-, m- or p-
** nominative or dative singular feminine preceding g-, c-, b-, m-, p-
    Seall air a' corra-lod! ― Look at the mess!

##### Declension

$^L$ Triggers lenition; $^H$ Triggers H-prothesis; $^T$ Triggers T-prothesis

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Particle

a'
* (before consonants) Apocopic form of ag
    Tha Seoc a' fuireach ann an Glaschu. - Jock lives in Glasgow.
    Dè tha thu a' leughadh? - What are you reading?

##### Usage notes

* In the Lewis dialect, ri is used instead.
* Scottish Gaelic has no simple present tense of regular verbs, so constructions with a', ag, or ri are used for both simple and progressive present tenses in English.

## Tarantino
### Etymology

Blend of a +‎ 'a

### Preposition

a'
* at the

## Yagaria
### Noun

a'
* (Hua dialect) woman

### References

* John Haiman, Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea