ى

See also: ی [U+06CC ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH], ي [U+064A ARABIC LETTER YEH], ې [U+06D0 ARABIC LETTER E], ۍ [U+06CD ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TAIL], ۓ [U+06D3 ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE], and ئ [U+0626 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE]

ى - Arabic

Alternative forms

  • Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, electronically, similar to the Persian ی.

Letter

ى ()

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
ىـىـىـىـ
  1. Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Also called أَلِف لَيِّنَة (ʔalif layyina, flexible alif). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.

Suffix

ـَى or ـَا ( or )

  1. Used to form feminine adjectives.

ى - Kazakh

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ja/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /ə/ (back)
  • (phoneme): IPA: /ɘ/, /i/ (front)

Letter

ى (ı, i)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
ىـىـىـىـ

Usage notes

  • Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.

ى - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [jə]
  • (Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA: [ə]

Letter

ى / ـى

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

ى - Uyghur

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /i/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /i/

Letter

ى (i)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
ىـىـىـىـ

Usage notes

Meaning and Definition of ى
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