aleph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

/ˈɑˌlɛf/ /ˈɑˌlɪf/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-aleph.wav

aleph alephs alef alif alaph olaph

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

alpha

aleph-beth aleph-null aleph-one aleph-zero since aleph

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