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â

See also: Â, -â, and Variations of "a"

â - Translingual

Letter

â (upper case Â)

  1. The letter a with a circumflex.

â - Albanian

Alternative forms

  • (Central, Southern, Gheg) ô, õ, ôsht, õsht
  • (Northerastern, Gheg) o, osht
  • (Northeastern, Northwestern, Gheg) ã, âsht, ãsht
  • (Standard, Cham, Tosk) është
  • (Tosk) ë, ësht, ësht'
  • (Arbëresh) ishtë, është
  • (Arvanitic) έ̰σ̈τε̰ (është), ε̰σ̈τε̰ (është), ε̱σ̈τε̱ (është)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɑ̃]

Verb

â

  1. (Gheg) (it) is (third-person singular present indicative of jam)
    • short for âsht (Standard: është); common among northwestern- and northeastern Gheg

â - French

Letter

â (lower case, upper case Â)

  1. the letter a with circumflex, a letter used in French spelling, originally representing the sound /ɑ/

â - Jersey Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /ɔː/

Letter

â

  1. A letter of the Jersey Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

â - Namuyi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ʔa˥]

Pronoun

â

  1. we

Synonyms

â - Neapolitan

Contraction

â (used with feminine singular nouns)

  1. Contraction of a 'a (“to the”).

â - Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɐ/, [ɐ], [ɜ], [ə]
  • (preceding coda ‘n’ or ‘m’) IPA: /ɐ̃/, [ɐ̃], [ɜ̃], [ə̃]
  • Always stressed.

Letter

â

  1. a letter "a" which is stressed and close

Contraction

â

  1. Obsolete spelling of à

â - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɨ/

Letter

â (lower case, upper case Â)

  1. The third letter of the Romanian alphabet, called î or î din a and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • See the usage notes at Â.

â - Sicilian

Article

â f sg (plural î)

  1. (definite article, spoken only) the, colloquial form of la

Preposition

â

  1. Contraction of a la (“to the”).

â - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /ɐ/

Letter

â (upper case Â)

  1. The second letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

â - Turkish

Letter

â (lower case, upper case Â)

  1. The letter of the Turkish alphabet, called â and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Not specified in the alphabet, but used officially to mark the palatalized consonant in the same syllable or distinguish long vowels if long wovel is distinguishing factor.

  • adet (“amount”) – /ɑˈdet/, âdet (“tradition”) – /ɑːˈdet/

â - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /əː˧˥/

Letter

â (upper case Â)

  1. The third letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called ớ and written in the Latin script.

â - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /a/

The circumflex is used to distinguish the word from a (“and”) rather than to indicate vowel length.

Alternative forms

  • ag (used before vowels)

Preposition

â

  1. with, by means of

Usage notes

 traditionally triggers the aspirate mutation, but in speech this may be absent. Before vowels, ag is used instead, except in some colloquial versions of the language where it remains â.

In the colloquial language â meaning “with” is mostly used after verbs such as cwrdd (“meet”), priodi (“marry”), ymweld (“visit”). The synonyms gyda or efo are used more generally.

Inflection

No personal inflections.

Conjunction

â

  1. as (in equative constructions mor...â, cyn...â)
    • mor hen â phechod ei hun ― as old as sin itself

Usage notes

 traditionally triggers the aspirate mutation, but in speech this may be absent. Before vowels, ag is used instead.

Verb

â

  1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of mynd

Synonyms

  • eith (colloquial)
  • aiff (colloquial)
  • eiff (colloquial)

â - Xavante

Noun

â

  1. Alternative spelling of ö (Protestant spelling)
Meaning and Definition of â
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