alphabetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Western) IPA: /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/, (uncommon) /ˈæl.fə.bɪt/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈalfɑ.bɛʈ/, /ˈɑlfɑ.bɛʈ/, /əlˈfɑ.bɛʈ/ ("alpha-bet")
• ハイフネーション: al‧pha‧bet

名詞

alphabet (plural alphabets)

1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.

   The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.

   In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.

2. A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
   1. A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
3. (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

   Let ${\displaystyle L}$ be a regular language over the alphabet ${\displaystyle \Sigma }$.

4. (India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
   • 2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, →ISBN, page 30:

     We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.

   • 2005, Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page 237:

     There are 26 alphabets in English.

   • 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

     Tamil got 247 alphabets you know. Got two R-eh, got three L, got two N you know.

5. The simplest rudiments; elements.
   • 1828, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII, to the Death of George II, by Henry Hallam”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 18:

     The very alphabet of our law.

6. (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

同意語

• ABC, absey

上位語

• (linguistics): signary

派生語

関連する語

参考

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet
• Appendix:Macedonian alphabet
• Appendix:Swedish spelling alphabet
• Category:Alphabets

動詞

alphabet (third-person singular simple present alphabets, present participle alphabeting, simple past and past participle alphabeted)

1. (rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

同意語

• alphabetize

Further reading

• alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia