title: Alif
text: # Alif
  
  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
  