ه

See also: ۀ [U+06C0 ARABIC LETTER HEH WITH YEH ABOVE], ة [U+0629 ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA], ہ [U+06C1 ARABIC LETTER HEH GOAL], ھ [U+06BE ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE], ە [U+06D5 ARABIC LETTER AE], and Variations of "h"

ه - Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /haːʔ/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه (hāʔ)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ن (n) and followed by و (w).

Symbol

ه/هـ (hāʾ)

  1. The abjad numeral representing the number five (5)

Pronoun

ـهُ or ـهُۥ or ـهِ or ـهِۦ (-hu or -hū or -hi or -hī) m sg

  1. him, his, it, its (bound object pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of masculine gender)

Usage notes

The form ـهِ (-hi) appears after y and ī, the form ـهِ (-hī) after i, the form ـهُ (-hu) after other consonants and long vowels, the form ـهُ (-hū) after short vowels.


Adverb

هـ (h-)

  1. AH

Particle

هَـ (ha-)

  1. (obsolete) Banū Ṭayyiʔ form of أَ (ʔa, interrogative particle)

Derived terms

ه - Egyptian Arabic

Suffix

ـه (-u or -) m sg

  1. him, his (bound object pronoun)

Usage notes

After a vowel, manifests itself only by lengthening the vowel and transferring the stress onto it (except before the negative suffix š, where it appears as -hū-).

ه - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [hɐ simpol], [hɐ bəsa(r)]
  • (Phoneme) IPA: [h]

Letter

ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه

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

ه - North Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

Suffix

ـه or ه (-o/-u after consonant or -h after vowel) m

  1. Enclitic form of هو (huwwe)
  2. he, him, his

Usage notes

  • The h is silent in the form after a vowel, but it lenghtens and stresses the preceding vowel.
    • كتبو.kátabuThey wrote.
    • كتبوه.katabūʰThey wrote him.
  • It might also be spelled as ـو after a consonant, as many speakers don't distinguish the final vowels “o” and “u”.

ه - Ottoman Turkish

Letter

ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه (he)

  1. A letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.

Usage notes

  • When used as a vowel, never connects to the following letter.
  • At the end of an Arabic word ending in teh marbuta, sometimes written as ة to reflect the etymology.
  • At the end of the first word in an ezafe construct, when representing a vowel, sometimes written هٔ to suggest a stop between the end of the base word and the normally unwritten vowel of the -i suffix.

Suffix

ـه (-a, -e)

  1. Forms dative case

Descendants


Suffix

ـه (-a, -e)

  1. Forms nouns resembling Arabic singulatives or instance nouns, even in ways which would be considered ungrammatical in Arabic, e.g.

Derived terms

Ottoman Turkish terms suffixed with ـه

Descendants

ه - Pashto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ˈɡərda he/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/, /a/, /ə/

Letter

ه (gërda he)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
هـهـهـهـ

ه - Persian

Pronunciation

  • (Iranian Persian) IPA: /he/

Letter

ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه (he)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by و and followed by ی. Its name is هه or هِ.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Persian) IPA: /a/
  • (Dari Persian) IPA: /a/
  • (Iranian Persian) IPA: /e/
  • (Tajik) IPA: /a/

Suffix

ـه (-e)

  1. Suffix forming adjectives from verbal stems
  2. Suffix forming nouns, from adjectives and present stems
  3. (colloquial) Suffix functioning as the impersonal pronoun one (one thing (among a group of others))
    • کدوم رو می‌خوای؟ آبیه.
      • - kodum ro mi-xây? -âbiye.
      • - Which one do you want? -The blue one.

Usage notes

Nouns formed with this suffix may take the ezafe spelled as such: ـهٔ (-e-ye) or sometimes ـه‌ی (-e-ye).

Derived terms

Persian terms suffixed with ه

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Persian) IPA: /a/
  • (Dari Persian) IPA: /a/
  • (Iranian Persian) IPA: /e/
  • (Tajik) IPA: /a/

Suffix

ـه (-e)

  1. Arabic feminine suffix.

Usage notes

Same as above.

Derived terms

Persian terms suffixed with ه (Arabic)

ه - South Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

Suffix

ـه (-o after consonant, -h after vowel) m

  1. Enclitic form of هو (huwwe)
  2. he, him, his

Usage notes

  • ـه (-o) after a consonant is replaced by ـو (-ō-) when followed by the negation suffix ـش ().
    • ما كتبهmā katabohe didn't write it
    • ما كتبوشmā katabōšhe didn't write it
  • ـه (-h) is silent after a vowel, but it lenghtens the preceding vowel; it extends to ـهو (-hō-) when followed by the negation suffix ـش ().
    • ما كتبوmā katabuthey didn't write
    • ما كتبوهmā katabūhthey didn't write it
    • ما كتبوهوشmā katabuhōšthey didn't write it

Determiner

هـ (ha-)

  1. this, these (before a noun)

ه - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /hi/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

ه (h)

  1. The ninth letter of the Yorùbá alphabet in the Ajami Script.

Forms

Isolated formFinal formMedial formInitial form
هـهـهـهـ
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