Alphabet

English

Etymology

From Template:Inh, borrowed from Template:Der, from Template:Der, from Template:M and Template:M, the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Template:M and Template:M, lowercase forms Template:M and Template:M. The Greek names derived from Template:M, the name of the Template:Der letter Template:M and Template:M, the name of the letter Template:M, so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs <hiero>F1</hiero> (Template:M) and <hiero>pr</hiero> (Template:M).

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.

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2. A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. Template:Qualifier
   1. A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. Template:Qualifier
3. Template:Lb A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

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4. Template:Lb An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
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5. The simplest rudiments; elements.
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6. Template:Lb An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

Synonyms

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Hypernyms

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Translations

• Abkhaz: Template:T
• Adyghe: Template:T
• Afar: Template:T
• Afrikaans: Template:T+
• Albanian: Template:T+
• Alemannic German: Template:T
• Amharic: Template:T
• Apache:

  Western Apache: Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T

• Arabic: Template:T, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Aramaic: Template:T
• Armenian: Template:T+
• Assamese: Template:T
• Asturian: Template:T+
• Azerbaijani: Template:T+
• Bashkir: Template:T
• Basque: Template:T+
• Belarusian: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T, Template:T, Template:T Template:Qualifier
• Bengali: Template:T+
• Bikol Central: Template:T
• Breton: Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T Template:Qualifier
• Burmese: Template:T+
• Buryat: Template:T, Template:T
• Carpathian Rusyn: Template:T, Template:T
• Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Chechen: Template:T
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: Template:T, Template:T

  Dungan: Template:T, Template:T

  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T

• Chuvash: Template:T
• Cornish: Template:T, Template:T
• Corsican: Template:T+
• Crimean Tatar: Template:T, Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dhivehi: Template:T
• Dinka: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T+
• Estonian: Template:T+, Template:Q Template:T+
• Farefare: Template:T
• Faroese: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T
• French: Template:T+
• Gagauz: Template:T
• Galician: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+, Template:T+

  Ancient: Template:T

• Greenlandic: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Guaraní: Template:T
• Gujarati: Template:T
• Haitian Creole: Template:T
• Hausa: Template:T, Template:T
• Hawaiian: Template:T
• Hebrew: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Icelandic: Template:T+
• Ido: Template:T+
• Igbo: Template:T
• Indonesian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ingrian: Template:T
• Interlingua: Template:T
• Irish: Template:T+, Template:T

  Old Irish: Template:T

• Italian: Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+ Template:Q, Template:T+, Template:T
• Javanese: Template:T+, Template:T
• Kabardian: Template:T, Template:T
• Kannada: Template:T+
• Kashubian: Template:T+
• Kazakh: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Khmer: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Komi-Permyak: Template:T-needed
• Komi-Zyrian: Template:T, Template:T
• Korean: Template:T+ Template:Q, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kumyk: Template:T
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Template:T+

• Kyrgyz: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ladino: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Lakota: Template:T
• Lao: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Latin: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T
• Luxembourgish: Template:T+
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Malagasy: Template:T+
• Malay: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+

  Jawi: Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T

• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Maltese: Template:T
• Manx: Template:T
• Maori: Template:T, Template:T
• Marathi: Template:T, Template:T
• Middle Dutch: Template:T-needed
• Middle English: Template:T
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T

  Mongolian: Template:T

• Navajo: Template:T, Template:T
• Nepali: Template:T
• Northern Sami: Template:T
• Norwegian: Template:T+, Template:T+

  Bokmål: Template:T+

  Nynorsk: Template:T

• Occitan: Template:T+
• Odia: Template:T+
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Template:T, Template:T

• Old East Slavic: Template:T
• Old English: Template:T, Template:T
• Old Norse: Template:T
• Oromo: Template:T
• Ossetian: Template:T, Template:T
• Pannonian Rusyn: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Pashto: Template:T+
• Pennsylvania German: Template:T
• Persian:

  Dari: Template:T

  Iranian Persian: Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: Template:T

• Romani: Template:T
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Sanskrit: Template:T+
• Scottish Gaelic: Template:T
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T

  Roman: Template:T+ Template:Qualifier, Template:T+ Template:Qualifier, Template:T+

• Skolt Sami: Template:T
• Slovak: Template:T+
• Slovene: Template:T+
• Southern Sami: Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swahili: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Tagalog: Template:T+, Template:T+,
• Tajik: Template:T+
• Tamil: Template:T, Template:T+
• Tatar: Template:T+
• Telugu: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Tibetan: Template:T
• Tigrinya: Template:T
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkmen: Template:T, Template:T
• Tuvan: Template:T-needed
• Udi: Template:T
• Ukrainian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T+ Template:Qualifier
• Urdu: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T+
• Uyghur: Template:T, Template:T
• Uzbek: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+
• Vilamovian: Template:T
• Volapük: Template:T+
• Võro: Template:T
• Walloon: Template:T+
• Welsh: Template:T+
• West Frisian: Template:T+
• Winnebago: Template:T
• Yakut: Template:T, Template:T
• Yiddish: Template:T+ Template:Qualifier, Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T Template:Qualifier
• Yoruba: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Yup'ik: Template:T

• Esperanto: Template:T+

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet
• Appendix:Macedonian alphabet
• Appendix:Swedish spelling alphabet
• Category:Alphabets

Verb

1. Template:Lb To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Synonyms

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Further reading

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French

Etymology

Template:Bor+, from Template:Der, from Template:M (Α,α) and Template:M (Β,β) (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Template:Der Template:M and Template:M Template:M, so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs <hiero>F1</hiero> (Template:M) and <hiero>pr</hiero> (Template:M).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Derived terms

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Related terms

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Further reading

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Middle French

Etymology

From Template:Inh, from Template:Der, from Template:M (Α,α) and Template:M (Β,β) (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), from Template:Der Template:M and Template:M Template:M, so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs <hiero>F1</hiero> (Template:M) and <hiero>pr</hiero> (Template:M).

Noun

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