هو
Arabic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Semitic *šuʔa.
Pronoun
[edit]هُوَ • (huwa) m (genitive ـهُ (-hu) or ـهِ (-hi), accusative ـهُ (-hu) or ـهِ (-hi) or إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu))
- he (subject pronoun)
- it (subject pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of masculine gender)
- having a copulative force, usually inserted when both the مُبْتَدَأ (mubtadaʔ) and خَبَر (ḵabar) are definite.
- اَلْوَقْت هُوَ اَلْمَال.
- al-waqt huwa l-māl.
- Time is money.
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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.- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:
- وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ أَن يُعَمَّرَ
- wamā huwa bimuzaḥziḥihi mina l-ʕaḏābi ʔan yuʕammara
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]See also
[edit]Arabic personal pronouns | ||||
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Isolated nominative pronouns | ||||
singular | dual | plural | ||
1st person | أَنَا (ʔanā) | نَحْنُ (naḥnu) | ||
2nd person | m | أَنْتَ (ʔanta) | أَنْتُمَا (ʔantumā) | أَنْتُمْ (ʔantum) |
f | أَنْتِ (ʔanti) | أَنْتُنَّ (ʔantunna) | ||
3rd person | m | هُوَ (huwa) | هُمَا (humā) | هُمْ (hum), هُمُ (humu)1 |
f | هِيَ (hiya) | هُنَّ (hunna) | ||
Isolated accusative pronouns | ||||
singular | dual | plural | ||
1st person | إِيَّايَ (ʔiyyāya) | إِيَّانَا (ʔiyyānā) | ||
2nd person | m | إِيَّاكَ (ʔiyyāka) | إِيَّاكُمَا (ʔiyyākumā) | إِيَّاكُم (ʔiyyākum) |
f | إِيَّاكِ (ʔiyyāki) | إِيَّاكُنَّ (ʔiyyākunna) | ||
3rd person | m | إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu) | إِيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā) | إِيَّاهُمْ (ʔiyyāhum) |
f | إِيَّاهَا (ʔiyyāhā) | إِيَّاهُنَّ (ʔiyyāhunna) | ||
Enclitic accusative and genitive pronouns | ||||
singular | dual | plural | ||
1st person | ـنِي (-nī), ـنِيَ (-niya), ـي (-y), ـيَ (-ya)2 | ـنَا (-nā) | ||
2nd person | m | ـكَ (-ka) | ـكُمَا (-kumā) | ـكُم (-kum) |
f | ـكِ (-ki) | ـكُنَّ (-kunna) | ||
3rd person | m | ـهُ (-hu), ـهِ (-hi)3 | ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)3 | ـهُم (-hum), ـهِم (-him)3 |
f | ـهَا (-hā) | ـهُنَّ (-hunna), ـهِنَّ (-hinna)3 | ||
1. هُمْ (hum) becomes هُمُ (humu) before the definite article الـ (al--). 2. Specifically, ـنِي (-nī, “me”) is attached to verbs, but ـِي (-ī) or ـيَ (-ya, “my”) is attached to nouns. In the latter case, ـيَ (-ya) is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a long vowel or diphthong (e.g. in the sound masculine plural and the dual), while ـِي (-ī) is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a short vowel, in which case that vowel is elided (e.g. in the sound feminine plural, as well as the singular and broken plural of most nouns). Furthermore, -ū of the masculine sound plural is assimilated to -ī before ـيَ (-ya) (presumably, -aw of masculine defective -an plurals is similarly assimilated to -ay). Prepositions use ـِي (-ī) or ـيَ (-ya), even though in this case it has the meaning of “me” rather than “my”. The sisters of inna can use either form (e.g. إِنَّنِي (ʔinnanī) or إِنِّي (ʔinnī)). 3. ـهِـ (-hi-) occurs after -i, -ī, or -ay, and ـهُـ (-hu-) elsewhere (after -a, -ā, -u, -ū, -aw). |
Etymology 2
[edit]From هُوَ (huwa, “it”), calqued from German Es, possibly through Latin id.
Noun
[edit]هُوَ • (huwa) m
- (psychology) id
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- Wehr, Hans (1979) “هو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
Bakhtiari
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Persian 𐏃𐎠𐎢𐎺 (hauv), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só (“name”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀 (ha).
Noun
[edit]هو (ho)
Chadian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هو • (hū) m
- he (subject pronoun)
Egyptian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هو • (húwwa) m
- he (subject pronoun)
See also
[edit]Egyptian Arabic personal pronouns | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
1st person | أنا (ʔana) | إحنا (ʔiḥna) | ||
2nd person | m | إنت (ʔinta) | إنتوا (ʔintu) | |
f | إنتي (ʔinti) | |||
3rd person | m | هو (huwwa) | هم (humma, hum) | |
f | هي (hiyya) |
Hijazi Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هو • (huwwa) m, enclitic form ـه (-u).
- he (subject pronoun)
- it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of masculine gender)
Khalaj
[edit]Noun
[edit]هَو (həv) (definite accusative هَوی, plural هَولَر)
Declension
[edit]Moroccan Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هو • (huwwa) m
- he (subject pronoun)
See also
[edit]Moroccan Arabic personal pronouns | |||
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Singular | Plural | ||
1st person | آنا (ʔāna), أنا (ʔana) | حنا (ḥnā) | |
2nd person | m | انت (ntā), انتينا (ntīna), انتين (ntīn) | انتوما (ntūma), انتوم (ntūm) |
f | انت (ntī), انتينا (ntīna), انتين (ntīn) | ||
3rd person | m | هو (huwwa) | هوما (hūma), هوم (hūm) |
f | هي (hiyya) |
North Levantine Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هو • (huwwe) m
See also
[edit]North Levantine Arabic personal pronouns | |||
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Singular | Plural | ||
1st person | أنا (ʔana) | نحنا (niḥna) | |
2nd person | m | انت (ʔinta, ʔinte) | انتو (ʔintu) |
f | انتي (ʔinti) | ||
3rd person | m | هو (huwwe) | هن (hinne) / هنن (hinnen) |
f | هي (hiyye) |
Pashto
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]هو • (ho)
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably dialectal variant of هبر (habar, “pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap-; cognate with English sap. Compare Central Kurdish ھەو (hew, “pus, inflammation”).
Noun
[edit]هو • (how)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Armenian: հու (hu) (possibly)
References
[edit]- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “هو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հու”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 421
Sindhi
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]References
[edit]- Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “هُو”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
Soqotri
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- هوهن (hóhon)
Etymology
[edit]Akin to Mehri [script needed] (hû), Shehri [script needed] (he).
Pronoun
[edit]هو (ho)
- I. first-person singular pronoun
- 2014, “The Story of the Makon”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 66, line 12:
- عٞامٞر: دمنؤو أه؟ عامُر: هو رجدهي
- ʕémər di-mənóʔo ɛ ʕö́mor ho rígdihi
- They asked: "Where are you from?" He said: "I am from Rigdiho."
References
[edit]- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 549
- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 470
- Leslau, Wolf (1938) “ho”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 138
South Levantine Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هو • (huwwe) m (enclitic form ـه (-o, -h))
- he (third-person masculine singular subject pronoun)
See also
[edit]South Levantine Arabic personal pronouns | |||
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Singular | Plural | ||
1st person | أنا (ʔana) | احنا (ʔiḥna) | |
2nd person | m | انت (ʔinta) | انتو (ʔintu) |
f | انتي (ʔinti) | ||
3rd person | m | هو (huwwe) | هم (homme) |
f | هي (hiyye) |
Tunisian Arabic
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]هُوَّ (huwwa) m (f هي, pl هما)
- he (subject pronoun)
- Arabic 2-syllable words
- Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Arabic 3-syllable words
- Arabic terms with audio pronunciation
- Arabic terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
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- ar:Sufism
- Arabic terms with usage examples
- Arabic terms with quotations
- Arabic nouns
- Arabic masculine nouns
- ar:Psychology
- Arabic nouns with invariable singular
- Bakhtiari terms inherited from Old Persian
- Bakhtiari terms derived from Old Persian
- Bakhtiari terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Bakhtiari terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Bakhtiari lemmas
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- Bakhtiari terms with usage examples
- Chadian Arabic terms inherited from Arabic
- Chadian Arabic terms derived from Arabic
- Chadian Arabic lemmas
- Chadian Arabic pronouns
- Egyptian Arabic terms inherited from Arabic
- Egyptian Arabic terms derived from Arabic
- Egyptian Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Egyptian Arabic lemmas
- Egyptian Arabic pronouns
- Hijazi Arabic terms inherited from Arabic
- Hijazi Arabic terms derived from Arabic
- Hijazi Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hijazi Arabic lemmas
- Hijazi Arabic pronouns
- Khalaj lemmas
- Khalaj nouns
- Khalaj terms in Arabic script
- Moroccan Arabic terms inherited from Arabic
- Moroccan Arabic terms derived from Arabic
- Moroccan Arabic 2-syllable words
- Moroccan Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Moroccan Arabic lemmas
- Moroccan Arabic pronouns
- North Levantine Arabic terms inherited from Arabic
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- North Levantine Arabic personal pronouns
- Pashto terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Sindhi terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Soqotri lemmas
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- Soqotri terms with quotations
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- South Levantine Arabic personal pronouns
- Tunisian Arabic lemmas
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