Alef

"ayin," instead of "alef" - is actually a great play on words for phyllo dough (that you'd use for puff pastries, usually meat or vegetable-filled). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Details of the ruling were not made public, but the conservative news website alef.ir reported that Baqaei has been convicted of "numerous violations." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Another midrash argues that the expression “the mother [em, written with an alef] of all living” is to be written differently, with the letter ayin (im — “with”), and that it alludes to the rights of the married woman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of her gently humorous “Lider fun Khelem” (Chelm poems) and “Lider fun alef-beys” (Poems of the alphabet), some appeared in the periodicals Inzl, Os and Haynt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Berlin: 1922; Der nayer alef-beys (The New Alphabet). ❋ Unknown (2009)

James - you have raised a subject that has occupied the human since alef declined to the the first letter of the Bible. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. yod alef ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm no friend of Herod, but give credit where credit is due, he stood up to that Nabataean bitch ... kaf alef ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also, there are some old jewish needlework books out there that might have a lace alef-bet. ❋ Angry Professor (2007)

It was Mullah Faizullah who had held her hand, guided the pencil in it along the rise of each alef, the curve of each beh, the three dots of each seh. ❋ Hosseini, Khaled (2007)

At the time I was going to bring up the "Farsi yeh" which is prouned as "yeh" but doesn't have the two dots versus "alef maksura" which is pronounced as "alef" but takes a different form. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I don't know if Arabic loans in Persian use "farsi yeh" in place of "yeh", or if they keep an "alef maksura" from the original Arabic... ❋ Unknown (2005)

Google Search results for john kerry with an “alef”= 1550 ❋ Unknown (2004)

Its only rival in point of antiquity is the famous Sinaitic Codex, known by the Hebrew letter [Hebrew: alef], discovered in a most romantic way by Tischendorf in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

Having originally represented their _alef_ by an ox's head, they found ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

For instance, the Egyptian _a_ is the ill-drawn figure of an eagle, the Phoenician _alef_ has the signification of "ox;" the _b_ of the Egyptians is a hastily drawn figure of a crane, the Phoenician ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

The conservative news website alef.ir says Vice President for Executive Affairs Hamid Baqaei has been convicted of committing "violations" and banned from serving in the government for four years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The conservative news website, alef.ir, posted several papers Roshan contributed. ❋ Unknown (2012)