Father, baba.
A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
father
The vowel designated by this mark.
In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line placed above a letter ( ـَ ) and designating a short a /a/. If the Arabic letters ا (أَلِف (ʔalif)) or ى (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra)) immediately follow, it indicates a long ā /aː/.