هي

See also: ہی‎

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi.ja/

• Audio

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Pronoun

هِيَ • (hiya) f, enclitic form ـهَا‎ (-hā)

1. she (subject pronoun).

   ‏هِيَ طَبِيبَةٌ‎

   hiya ṭabībatun

   She is a doctor

2. it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of feminine gender)

   ‏سَاحِلُ العَاجِ هِيَ دَوْلَةٌ تَقَعُ غَرْبَ أَفْرِيقْيَا‎‎

   sāḥilu l-ʕāji hiya dawlatun taqaʕu ḡarba ʔafrīqyā

   Cote d'Ivoire is a country that is located West of Africa

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:16:

     (Dr. Mustaffa Khattab)

     ‏وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ‎

     wānšaqqati s-samāʔu fahiya yawmaʔiḏin wāhiyatun

     The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:41:

     ‏فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَى‎

     faʔinna l-jannata hiya l-maʔwā

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

3. they (subject pronoun, non-human).
   • 2019 May 4, “ما هي القضايا التي ناقشها ترامب وبوتين في مكالمتهما؟‎”, in BBC Arabic‎^[1]:

Descendants

• Egyptian Arabic: هي‎ (híyya)
• Gulf Arabic: اِهْيَ‎ (ehya)
• Hijazi Arabic: هِيَّ‎ (hiyya)
• Maltese: hija, hi
• Moroccan Arabic: هي‎ (hiyya)
• Tunisian Arabic: هي‎ (hiyya)

See also

Arabic personal pronouns

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).

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “هي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ‎ (hiya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhijjæ/

Pronoun

هي • (híyya) f

1. she (subject pronoun)

See also

Egyptian Arabic personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		انا‎ (ʾana)	احنا‎ (ʾiḥna)
2nd person	m	انت‎ (ʾinta)	انتوا‎ (ʾintu)
	f	انتي‎ (ʾinti)
3rd person	m	هو‎ (huwwa)	هم‎ (humma, hum)
	f	هي‎ (hiyya)

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ‎ (hiya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hijːa/

Pronoun

هي • (hiyya) f, enclitic form ـهَا‎ (-ha).

1. she (subject pronoun)
2. it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of feminine gender)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ‎ (hiya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hij.ja/

Pronoun

هي • (hiyya) f

1. she (subject pronoun)

See also

Moroccan Arabic personal pronouns
		Singular	Plural
1st person		أنا‎ (ʔana), آنا‎ (ʔāna)	حنا‎ (ḥna)
2nd person	m	انت‎ (nta), انتينا‎ (ntīna), انتين‎ (ntīn)	انتوما‎ (ntūma), انتوم‎ (ntūm)
	f	انت‎ (nti), انتينا‎ (ntīna), انتين‎ (ntīn)
3rd person	m	هو‎ (huwwa)	هوما‎ (hūma), هوم‎ (hūm)
	f	هي (hiyya)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic هِيَ‎ (hiya).

Pronoun

هي • (hiyye) f

1. she (subject pronoun)

   Enclitic form: ـها‎ (-(h/w/y)a)

See also

North Levantine Arabic personal pronouns
		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)

Etymology 2

From the form هَيِّي‎ (hayye, hayyi) attested in Damascene (compare the development of شويّ‎ (šwayy) and ميّ‎ (ṃayy)), which may be an irregular lenition of an earlier form *هَيْذِي (hayḏe, hayḏi). In the Lebanese form هيدي‎ (hayde, haydi), the ذ (ḏ) of *هيذي regularly evolved into د (d) instead of leniting.

Pronoun

هي • (hayy) f

1. feminine of هاد‎ (hād): (Syria) this

   Synonym: (Lebanon) هيدي‎ (haydi)

Determiner

هي • (hayy) f

1. feminine of هاد‎ (hād): (Syria) this

   Synonyms: (Lebanon) هيدي‎ (haydi), (before the definite article) هـ‎ (ha-)

Sindhi

Pronoun

هي (hī) (Devanagari ही)

1. he; masculine third-person singular proximal personal pronoun

Determiner

هي (hī) m (Devanagari ही)

1. this

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic هِيَ‎ (hiya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hij.je/, [ˈhij.je]

• Audio (Jerusalem)

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Pronoun

هي • (hiyye) f, enclitic form ـها‎ (-ha)

1. she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

See also

South Levantine Arabic personal pronouns
		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)

Etymology 2

Determiner

هيّ • (hayy)

1. this here

   ‏هيّ الكتاب اللي سألتني عنّه.‎‎

   hayy li-ktāb illi saʔalt-ni ʕanno

   This here is the book you asked me about.

2. (by extension) used to stress the current nature of an action

   ‏هيّني جاي من البنك.‎‎

   hayy-ni jāy min il-bank

   I'm coming right now from the bank.

   ‏هيّ فيه واحد طالع من ورا الشجرة.‎‎

   hayy fīh wāḥad ṭāleʕ min wara š-šajara

   There's someone coming out right now from behind the tree.

Inflection

Inflected forms of هي
Base form					هيّ (hayy)
Personal-pronoun- including forms		singular		plural
		m	f
1st person		هيّني‎ (hayyni)		هيّنا‎ (hayyna)
2nd person		هيّك‎ (hayyak)	هيّك‎ (hayyek)	هيّكم‎ (hayykom)
3rd person		هيّه‎ (hayyo)	هيّها‎ (hayyha)	هيّهم‎ (hayyhom)

Tunisian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ‎ (hiya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hij.ja/

Pronoun

هي (hiyya) f

1. she (subject pronoun)