aleph

English

Borrowed from Hebrew אלף‎ (álef), with a Hellenized ph spelling due to influence from alpha. Doublet of alpha.

aleph (plural alephs)

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).
(mathematics) 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.

first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and descendant script

Arabic: أَلِف‎ (ar) m (ʔalif), (symbol) ا‎ (ar)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܐܠܦ‎ f (ʾālaf), (symbol) ܐ‎
Catalan: àlef (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿列夫 (zh) (ālièfū), 阿利夫 (ālìfu) (Arabic letter also), 艾利夫 (àilìfu)
Finnish: alef (fi)
French: aleph (fr)
German: (Hebrew letter) Aleph n, Alef n
Greek: άλεφ n (álef)
Hebrew: אָלֶף‎ (he) f (álef), (symbol) א‎ (he)
Italian: alef m or f
Japanese: アレフ (arefu), アリフ (arifu) (Arabic letter)
Malay: alif (ms)
Persian: الف‎ (fa) (alef)
Polish: alef (pl) m
Portuguese: alef m
Russian: а́леф m (álef), а́лиф (ru) m (álif) (Arabic letter)
Spanish: álef (es) m or f
Turkish: elif (tr)
Urdu: اَلِف‎ (ur) m (alif), ا‎ (ur) (symbol)
Yiddish: אַלף‎ f (alef)

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