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], andئ [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 • (-ā)
Isolated form
Final form
Medial form
Initial form
ى
ـى
ـىـ
ىـ
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.
The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.
Forms
Isolated form
Final form
Medial form
Initial form
ى
ـى
ـىـ
ىـ
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
The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.