Alif may refer to:

Languages

* Alif (ا) in the Arabic alphabet, equivalent to

aleph Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac , Arabic ʾ and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez . These letter ...

, the first letter of many Semitic alphabets **

Dagger alif The dagger alif or superscript alif ( ar, ألف خنجرية ) is written as a short vertical stroke on top of an Arabic alphabet, Arabic letter. It indicates a long sound where aleph, alif is normally not written, e.g. or . The dagger ali ...

, superscript alif in Arabic alphabet * Alif, the first letter of the

Urdu alphabet The Urdu alphabet (), is the right-to-left alphabet used for Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script. The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 or 40 distinct letters with no distinct letter c ...

* Alif, the eighth consonant of the

Thaana Thaana, Taana or Tāna ( ) is the present writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives. Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida (diacritic, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are written), ...

abugida used in Dhivehi

Films and TV

* ''Alif'' (2015 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Alif'' (2016 film), an Indian Hindi film produced by Pawan Tiwari and Zaigham Imam * ''Alif'' (TV series), a Pakistani drama produced by Samina Humayun Saeed

Places

* Ari Atoll or Alif, a historic administrative division of the Maldives *

Alif, Iran Dahleh ( fa, دهله, also Romanized as Dahlah and Dehleh; also known as Alīf, Dahli, and Dehlī) is a village in Kamaraj Rural District, Kamaraj and Konartakhteh District, Kazerun County, Fars Province, Iran Iran, officially the I ...

, a village in Fars Province, Iran

Other uses

Alif (rapper) Alif Abdullah (born September 21, 1989), better known as ALYPH or Alif is a Singaporean-Malay singer, performer, songwriter, composer and producer based in Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal ...

(born 1989), singer, lyricist, composer and recording publisher * Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion, a type of spinal fusion *

ALIF (Liberate Attack of the Feminist Infantry) ALIF (Attaque libératoire de l'infanterie féministe, English: Liberation Attack of the Feminist Infantry) is the pioneer female hip hop trio of Hip Hop Galsen. Emerging in the late mid-1990s, ALIF offered a feminine and feminist flavour to Hip ...

, female hip hop group from Senegal {{disambiguation, geo