See alfa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "alfa",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
],
"id": "en-alfa-en-noun-en:NATO_Phonetic_Alphabet_alpha",
"links": [
[
"Alfa",
"Alfa#Translingual"
],
[
"NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet",
"w:NATO Phonetic Alphabet"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
],
"senseid": [
"en:NATO Phonetic Alphabet alpha"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)",
"word": "alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system"
},
{
"extra": "(except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)",
"word": "where various digraphs are usually deprecated"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "20 71 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 2 0 4 14 3 1 0 1 4 1 1 0 11 1 5 0 6 2 6 3 4 1 0 2 1 11 1 11 1 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 23 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 0 2 0 4 15 2 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 12 1 5 0 7 2 6 2 4 0 0 3 1 13 1 13 1 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)."
],
"id": "en-alfa-en-noun-en:INN_translingual_alpha",
"links": [
[
"alpha",
"alpha#English"
],
[
"ruleset",
"ruleset#English"
],
[
"digraphs",
"digraph#Etymology 2"
],
[
"translingually",
"translingual#English"
],
[
"f",
"f#English"
],
[
"ph",
"ph#English"
],
[
"t",
"t#English"
],
[
"th",
"th#English"
],
[
"e",
"e#English"
],
[
"ae",
"ae#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)."
],
"senseid": [
"en:INN translingual alpha"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "alfa"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ff",
"3": "alfaa"
},
"expansion": "Fula alfaa",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "àlùfáà"
},
"expansion": "Yoruba àlùfáà",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Fula alfaa. Compare Yoruba àlùfáà.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alfas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "alfa (plural alfas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Islam",
"orig": "en:Islam",
"parents": [
"Abrahamism",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A West African cleric or religious teacher."
],
"id": "en-alfa-en-noun-MMhUQVJB",
"links": [
[
"cleric",
"cleric"
],
[
"teacher",
"teacher"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Islam) A West African cleric or religious teacher."
],
"topics": [
"Islam",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"word": "alfa"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Fula",
"English terms derived from Fula",
"Pages with 23 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "alfa",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
],
"links": [
[
"Alfa",
"Alfa#Translingual"
],
[
"NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet",
"w:NATO Phonetic Alphabet"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet."
],
"senseid": [
"en:NATO Phonetic Alphabet alpha"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)",
"word": "alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system"
},
{
"extra": "(except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)",
"word": "where various digraphs are usually deprecated"
}
],
"categories": [
"English links with manual fragments"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)."
],
"links": [
[
"alpha",
"alpha#English"
],
[
"ruleset",
"ruleset#English"
],
[
"digraphs",
"digraph#Etymology 2"
],
[
"translingually",
"translingual#English"
],
[
"f",
"f#English"
],
[
"ph",
"ph#English"
],
[
"t",
"t#English"
],
[
"th",
"th#English"
],
[
"e",
"e#English"
],
[
"ae",
"ae#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f not ph, t not th, and e not ae)."
],
"senseid": [
"en:INN translingual alpha"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "alfa"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Fula",
"English terms derived from Fula",
"Pages with 23 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ff",
"3": "alfaa"
},
"expansion": "Fula alfaa",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "àlùfáà"
},
"expansion": "Yoruba àlùfáà",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Fula alfaa. Compare Yoruba àlùfáà.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "alfas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "alfa (plural alfas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Islam"
],
"glosses": [
"A West African cleric or religious teacher."
],
"links": [
[
"cleric",
"cleric"
],
[
"teacher",
"teacher"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Islam) A West African cleric or religious teacher."
],
"topics": [
"Islam",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"word": "alfa"
}
Download raw JSONL data for alfa meaning in English (3.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.