𐤀𐤋𐤐
Phoenician
Etymology 1
From Proto-Semitic *ʾalp-.
Etymology 2
Cognate to Hebrew אלף (álef) and Arabic ألف (ʾalif), the name of the first letter of the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets, respectively.
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: ἄλφα (álpha)
- Greek: άλφα (álfa)
- → Arabic: أَلْفَا (ʾalfā)
- → Asturian: alfa
- → Bulgarian: алфа (alfa)
- → Catalan: alfa
- → Classical Syriac: ܐܠܦܐ (ʾalpā)
- → Czech: alfa
- → Dutch: alfa
- → English: alpha
- → Finnish: alfa
- → French: alpha
- → Galician: alfa
- → Ge'ez: አልፋ (ʾälfa)
- → German: Alpha
- → Hindi: अल्फ़ा (alfā) (perhaps via Arabic)
- → Hungarian: alfa
- → Italian: alfa
- → Irish: alfa
- → Latin: alpha
- → Macedonian: алфа (alfa)
- → Old Armenian: ալփ (alpʿ), այբ (ayb)
- → Polish: alfa
- → Portuguese: alfa
- → Russian: а́льфа (álʹfa)
- → Serbo-Croatian: а̏лфа (ȁlfa)
- → Slovak: alfa
- → Slovene: alfa
- → Swedish: alfa
- → Spanish: alfa
- → Ukrainian: а́льфа (álʹfa)
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