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 Ari Atoll (also called Alif or Alifu Atoll) is one of the natural atolls of the Maldives. It is one of the biggest atolls and is located in the west of the archipelago. The almost rectangular alignment spreads the islands over an area of about ...

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

People

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

Acronyms

ALIF may stand for: * Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion, a type of

spinal fusion Spinal fusion, also called spondylodesis or spondylosyndesis, is a neurosurgical or orthopedic surgical technique that joins two or more vertebrae. This procedure can be performed at any level in the spine (cervical, thoracic, or lumbar) and pre ...

* ALIF (Liberate Attack of the Feminist Infantry), female hip hop group from Senegal {{disambiguation, geo