اتسي अतसी atasī S s. f. Flax. (Linum usi- tatissimum).

اونترنشت ऊनत्रिंशत् ūna-trinshat S adj. Twen- ty-nine.

اشٿادش अष्टादश ash̤ṭādash S adj. Eighteenth.

اورنگ شاهي aurang-shāh-ī P s. m. A kind of silk so called.

ابابیل abābīl A s. m. A swallow.

امم umam A s. plur. (of امت ummat) People, sects.

اشرار ashrār A s. plur. (of شریر) Wicked, wretch- ed, criminal, seditious (people).

آرا ārā P part. (in compos.) Adorning, adorner, arranger, preparer.

ا Alif is the first letter of the Arabic and Persian alphabets. At the beginning of Hindī words, denoted by the characters of these alphabets, ا with the vowel fatḥa, written or more commonly understood, represents the Devanāgari letter अ a; with kasr, the letter इ i; with ẓamm, the letter ऊ u; and with the sign madda ي, the letter आ ā: at the beginning of Hindī words, moreover, when ا is followed immediately by ي, the two letters together, according to the vowel written or understood with ا, stand for ई ī ए e or ऐ ai; and when ا is followed in like manner by و, these two letters together represent, according to the vowel used with ا, either ऊ ū ओ o or औ au; but, in the middle or at the end of such words, ا stands invariably for आ ā, In the representation of numbers by the Arabic letters, ا stands for one; whence it is used also as a symbol of the deity: it signifies, moreover, the first day of the week, or Sunday; and, in astronomical descriptions, the sign Taurus of the Zodiack. From its form, too, this letter is adopted to denote straightness; hence, also, a brave man. And, in allusion to its simple, unadorned, figure, it is sometimes used to mean naked.

احتمال iḥtimāl A (inf. viii. of حمل Heb.and Syr. He bore) s. m. 1. Act of bearing or sup- porting. 2. Doubt, uncertainty. 3. Proba- bility, conjecture. احتمال کرنا iḥtimāl karnā, To doubt, to impute. احتمال هونا iḥtimāl honā, To be probable.