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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe 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). · The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
Borrowed from Hebrew אָלֶף (álef). Doublet of alpha and alif.
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