Meaning

2 senses
  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).

    Aleph, Alef

    а́лефálef, а́лифálif

    the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

  2. The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.

    The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Look, little children, remember, dears, what you learn here. Say again and again: kometz aleph, O!

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Translations

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By meaning 1
first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and descendant script:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and descendant script:

Origin

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

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

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