â

See also: Â, , and Variations of "a"

â - Translingual

Letter

â (upper case Â)

  1. The letter a with a circumflex.

â - Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɑ̃]

Verb

â

  1. Gheg form of është

â - French

Letter

â (lower case, upper case Â)

  1. the letter a with circumflex, used in French spelling, representing the phoneme /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 vowel 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 and written in the Latin script.

â - Welsh

Alternative forms

  • ag (used before vowels)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /a/
  • Homophone: a

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

Preposition

â

  1. with
  2. (instrumental) 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.

Note especially the forms mynd â (take, literally go with) and dod â (bring, literally come with). Compare:

  • Es i â fy mam at y meddygI took my mother to the doctor [I transported her]
  • Es i at y meddyg gyda fy mamI went to the doctor with my mother [she accompanied me]

Inflection

No personal inflections.

Conjunction

â

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

Usage notes

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


Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aː/

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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