â

See also: Appendix:Variations of "a"
â U+00E2, â
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Composition:a [U+0061] + ̂ [U+0302]
á
[U+00E1]
Latin-1 Supplement ã
[U+00E3]

Translingual

Letter

â (upper case Â)

  1. The letter a with a circumflex.

See also


Albanian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑ̃]

Verb

â

  1. (Gheg) is (third-person singular present indicative of jam)

French

Letter

â (lower case, upper case Â)

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

Neapolitan

Etymology

Compare Italian alla.

Contraction

â (used with feminine singular nouns)

  1. Contraction of a 'a (to the).

Portuguese

Etymology

The letter a with a circumflex.

Pronunciation

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

Letter

â

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

Contraction

â

  1. Obsolete spelling of à

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɨ.din.a]

Letter

â (capital, lowercase Â)

  1. The third letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /ɨ/. Preceded by ă and followed by b.

Usage notes


Sicilian

Article

â f sg (plural î)

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

See also

Sicilian articles
Masculine Feminine
indefinite singular un, nu na
definite singular lu, û la, â
definite plural li, î li, î

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɐ/

Letter

â (upper case Â)

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

See also


Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /əː˧˥/

Letter

â (upper case Â)

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

See also


Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [a]

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

Etymology 1

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".

See also

Conjunction

â

  1. as
    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.

Etymology 2

Verb

â

  1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative and future of mynd
Synonyms
  • eith (colloquial)
  • aiff (colloquial)
  • eiff (colloquial)

Xavante

Alternative forms

  • keu (Martius' spelling; obsolete)

Pronunciation

Noun

â

  1. water

References

  1. Fernando Orphão de Carvalho, Gean Nunes Damulakis, The Structure of Akroá and Xakriabá and their relation to Xavante and Xerente: A contribution to the historical linguistics of the Jê languages (2015), citing for the older forms Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens (1867; citing Pohl) and Ehrenreich (1895)
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