"آ" meaning in Arabic

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "أَ",
        "3": "الْ"
      },
      "expansion": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ʾalif maddah",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "letter",
        "tr": "ʾalif maddah"
      },
      "expansion": "آ • (ʾalif maddah)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "character",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/."
      ],
      "id": "en-آ-ar-character-5mGPt7j-",
      "links": [
        [
          "maddah",
          "maddah"
        ]
      ],
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        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔa.lif mad.da/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔaː/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "آ"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "أَ",
        "3": "الْ"
      },
      "expansion": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ʾā-",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "آ",
        "tr": "ʾā-"
      },
      "expansion": "آ • (ʾā-)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "particle",
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    {
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        },
        {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-آ-ar-particle-Ch9kHim3",
      "links": [
        [
          "ال",
          "ال#Arabic"
        ],
        [
          "مَدَّة",
          "مدة#Arabic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔa.lif mad.da/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔaː/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "آ"
}

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    "Arabic compound terms",
    "Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
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    "Arabic letters",
    "Arabic particles",
    "Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Arabic terms with irregular pronunciations",
    "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Arabic terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "أَ",
        "3": "الْ"
      },
      "expansion": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ʾalif maddah",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "letter",
        "tr": "ʾalif maddah"
      },
      "expansion": "آ • (ʾalif maddah)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Alif maddah. A double-alif used to write the sequence /ʔaː/."
      ],
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        [
          "maddah",
          "maddah"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔa.lif mad.da/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔaː/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "آ"
}

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    "Arabic compound terms",
    "Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Arabic lemmas",
    "Arabic letters",
    "Arabic particles",
    "Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Arabic terms with irregular pronunciations",
    "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Arabic terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "أَ",
        "3": "الْ"
      },
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      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "أَ (ʔa) + الْ (al-)",
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    {
      "form": "ʾā-",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "آ",
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      },
      "expansion": "آ • (ʾā-)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ال",
          "ال#Arabic"
        ],
        [
          "مَدَّة",
          "مدة#Arabic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔa.lif mad.da/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔaː/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "آ"
}