Aleph

//藞蓱藢l蓻f// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 饜 (示, 示aleph), Aramaic 饜 (示), Classical Syriac 軔 ('膩laph), Hebrew 讗 (aleph) and Arabic 丕 (示alif).
  2. 2
    the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet
  3. 3
    The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.

    "The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph."

Example

More examples

"Look, little children, remember, dears, what you learn here. Say again and again: kometz aleph, O!"

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew 讗诇祝 (谩lef). Doublet of alpha and alif.

Related phrases

aleph-bethaleph-nullaleph-onealeph-zerosince alephproto canaanite alphabet

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