Alif Explained

Alif may refer to:

Languages

• Alif (ا) in the Arabic alphabet, equivalent to aleph, the first letter of many Semitic alphabets
  • Dagger alif, superscript alif in Arabic alphabet
• Alif, the first letter of the Urdu alphabet
• Alif, the eighth consonant of the Thaana 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 or Alif, a historic administrative division of the Maldives
• Alif, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran

Other uses

• Alif (rapper) (born 1989), singer, lyricist, composer and recording publisher
• Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion, a type of spinal fusion
• ALIF (Liberate Attack of the Feminist Infantry), female hip hop group from Senegal