ه
ه - Arabic
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA: /haːʔ/
- (phoneme): IPA: /h/
Letter
ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه • (hāʔ)
Symbol
ه/هـ • (hāʾ)
Pronoun
ـهُ or ـهُۥ or ـهِ or ـهِۦ • (-hu or -hū or -hi or -hī) m sg
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-)
Particle
هَـ • (ha-)
- (obsolete) Banū Ṭayyiʔ form of أَ (ʔa, interrogative particle)
Derived terms
- هَل (hal)
ه - Egyptian Arabic
Suffix
ـه • (-u or -) m sg
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
ه - North Levantine Arabic
Alternative forms
- ـو
Suffix
ـه or ه • (-o/-u after consonant or -h after vowel) m
Usage notes
ه - Ottoman Turkish
Letter
ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه • (he)
- 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)
- Forms dative case
Descendants
Suffix
ـه • (-a, -e)
- Forms nouns resembling Arabic singulatives or instance nouns, even in ways which would be considered ungrammatical in Arabic, e.g.
Derived terms
Descendants
ه - Pashto
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA: /ˈɡərda he/
- (phoneme): IPA: /h/, /a/, /ə/
Letter
ه • (gërda he)
- The thirty-ninth letter of the Pashto alphabet.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
---|---|---|---|
ه | ـه | ـهـ | هـ |
ه - Persian
Pronunciation
- (Iranian Persian) IPA: /he/
Letter
ه / هـ / ـهـ / ـه • (he)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA: /a/
- (Dari Persian) IPA: /a/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA: /e/
- (Tajik) IPA: /a/
Suffix
ـه • (-e)
- Suffix forming adjectives from verbal stems
- Suffix forming nouns, from adjectives and present stems
- (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
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA: /a/
- (Dari Persian) IPA: /a/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA: /e/
- (Tajik) IPA: /a/
Suffix
ـه • (-e)
- Arabic feminine suffix.
Usage notes
Same as above.
Derived terms
ه - South Levantine Arabic
Alternative forms
- ـو
Suffix
ـه • (-o after consonant, -h after vowel) m
Usage notes
Determiner
هـ • (ha-)
ه - Yoruba
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA: /hi/
- (phoneme): IPA: /h/
Letter
ه (h)
- The ninth letter of the Yorùbá alphabet in the Ajami Script.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
---|---|---|---|
ه | ـه | ـهـ | هـ |