See also:أ [U+0623 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE], ٵ [U+0675 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA ALEF], ا [U+0627 ARABIC LETTER ALEF], اً, ٱ [U+0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA], إ [U+0625 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW], andا-
آ - Arabic
Pronunciation
(letter name) IPA:/ʔa.lif mad.da/
(phoneme) IPA:/ʔaː/
Letter
آ • (ʾalif maddah)
Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/.
Particle
آ • (ʾā-)
A form of the initial interrogative particle that indicates a yes-or-no question. As it is written together with the following word, when this word begins with ال(al-, “the”) they are orthographically morphed together and written with a مَدَّة(madda) diacritic instead of maintaining both.