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==English==

===Etymology 1===

====Adverb====
{{en-adv|-}}

# {{alternative spelling of|en|a||all}} {{defdate|First attested from 1350 to 1470.}}

====Adjective====
{{en-adj|-}}

# {{alternative spelling of|en|a||all}} {{defdate|First attested from 1350 to 1470.}}

===Etymology 2===

====Preposition====
{{en-preposition}}

# {{lb|en|archaic}} {{alt form|en|a||in}}
#* '''1661''', Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in '''1876''', Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, ''A Select Collection of Old English Plays'', page 217:
#*: SIL. What, [[a God's name|'''a&#39;''' God&#39;s name]], could come into the heads
#*: Of this people to make them rebel?
#*: ERN. Why, religion; that came into their heads
#*: '''A&#39;''' God&#39;s name.
#*: GER. But what a devil made the noblemen
#*: Rebel? they never mind religion.

==Bambara==

===Pronoun===
{{head|bm|pronoun}}

# [[you]]

==Irish==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ga|/ə/}}

===Particle===
{{head|ga|particle|head=a’}}

# {{lb|ga|nonstandard}} {{contraction of|ga|an|pos=used to form direct and indirect questions}}
#* {{RQ:ga:Rí nach robh|Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di '''a’''' bpósfadh sí é. {{...}} Chuaidh an rí é féin síos annsin ⁊ d’fhiafraigh dhi '''a’''' bpósfadh sí é.|He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him. {{...}} The king himself then went down, and asked her would she marry him.}}

==Italian==

===Etymology 1===

====Pronunciation====
{{it-pr|ȧ'°}}

====Contraction====
{{head|it|contraction}}

# {{tlb|it|Tuscan|or|literary}} {{form of|it|truncation|ai|t=to the {{g|m-p}}|pos=contraction of {{m|it|[[a]] [[i]]}}}}

===Etymology 2===

====Alternative forms====
* {{alt|it|a|ah|a-}}

====Pronunciation====
{{it-pr|ȧ'*}}

====Particle====
{{head|it|particle}}

# {{lb|it|regional|informal}} {{n-g|uttered before a noun to call whoever it is referred to}}
#: {{ux|it|'''A<nowiki>'</nowiki>''' Gigi, viè qua!|Gigi, come here!}}
#: {{ux|it|E che mi lasciate qua? '''A<nowiki>'</nowiki>''' 'nfami!|Are you leaving me here? '''You''' bastards!}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|it|ahó}}

==Japanese==

===Romanization===
{{ja-romaji}}

# {{ja-romanization of|あっ}}

==Scots==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|sco|a|aw}}
* {{alter|sco|aa|aal||Shetland}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|sco|enm|all}}, from {{inh|sco|ang|eall||all, every, entire, whole, universal}}, from {{inh|sco|gmw-pro|*all}}, from {{inh|sco|gem-pro|*allaz||all, whole, every}}, perhaps from {{inh|sco|ine-pro|*h₂el-||all}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|sco|/ɑː/|/ɔː/}}
* {{IPA|sco|/aː(l)/|a=Northern,Insular}}

===Determiner===
{{sco-det}}

# [[all]]

===Adverb===
{{head|sco|adverb}} 

# [[all]]
#* {{quote-song|sco|year=1852–1859|author=Lady John Scott|title=Annie Laurie|album=Scottish Songs|url=http://ks.petruccimusiclibrary.org/files/imglnks/usimg/4/4a/IMSLP275292-PMLP447045-Scottish_Songs.pdf|text=/ Like dew on the gowan lying / Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; / And like winds in summer sighing, / Her voice is low and sweet— / Her voice is low and sweet, / And she's '''a'''' the world to me, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.}}

===Noun===
{{sco-noun|-}}

# [[all]]
#* {{quote-book|sco|compiler=[[w:Allan Cunningham (author)|Allan Cunningham]]|chapter=Who’s at My Window|title=The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; {{...|with an Introduction and Notes, Historical and Critical, and Characters of the Lyric Poets.}} In Four Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for [[w:John Taylor (English publisher)|John Taylor]],{{nb...|Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall.}}|year=1825|volume=III|page=334|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA334|oclc=847583|passage=There’s mirth in the barn and the [[hall|ha’]], the ha’, / There’s mirth in the barn and the ha’: / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride’s daftest of '''a’''', of '''a’''', / And our young bride’s daftest of '''a’'''.}}

===Derived terms===
* {{l|sco|an a'}}

===References===
* {{R:DSL|pos=adj.,adv|url=https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/a_adj_adv}}
* {{R:ScotsOnline}}

==Scottish Gaelic==

===Etymology 1===
{{nonlemma}}

====Article====
{{head|gd|article}}

# {{inflection of|gd|an|t=the||;|dat|or|gen|sg|m|preceding '''g-''', '''c-''', '''b-''', '''m-''' or '''p-'''|;|nom|or|dat|sg|f|preceding '''g-''', '''c-''', '''b-''', '''m-''', '''p-'''}}
#: {{uxi|gd|Seall air '''a'''' corra-lod!|Look at '''the''' mess!}}

=====Declension=====
{{gd-decl-article}}

===Etymology 2===
{{nonlemma}}

====Particle====
{{head|gd|particle}}

# {{lb|gd|before consonants}} {{apocopic form of|gd|ag}}
#: ''Tha Seoc '''a'''' fuireach ann an Glaschu.'' - Jock lives in Glasgow.
#: ''Dè tha thu '''a'''' leughadh?'' - What are you reading?

=====Usage notes=====
* In the [[w:Lewis|Lewis]] dialect, [[ri#Scottish Gaelic|ri]] is used instead.
* Scottish Gaelic has no [[simple present]] [[tense]] of regular verbs, so constructions with '''a'''', '''ag''', or '''ri''' are used for both simple and [[progressive]] present tenses in English.

==Tarantino==

===Etymology===
{{blend|roa-tar|a|'a}}

===Preposition===
{{head|roa-tar|preposition}}

# [[at]] [[the]]

==Yagaria==

===Noun===
{{head|ygr|noun}}

# {{lb|ygr|Hua|_|dialect}} [[woman]]

===References===
* John Haiman, ''Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea''

[[Category:Hua Yagaria]]