هي

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hi.ja/
  • (file)

Pronoun[edit]

هِيَ (hiyaf, 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ(hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

هي (híyyaf

  1. she (subject pronoun)

See also[edit]

Hijazi Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ(hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hiyyaf, enclitic form ـهَا(-ha).

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

Moroccan Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ(hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hiyyaf

  1. she (subject pronoun)

See also[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ(hiya).

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hiyyef

  1. she (subject pronoun)
    Enclitic form: ـها(-(h/w/y)a)
See also[edit]
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[edit]

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 () of *هيذي regularly evolved into د (d) instead of leniting.

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hayyf

  1. feminine of هاد(hād): (Syria) this
    Synonym: (Lebanon) هيدي(haydi)

Determiner[edit]

هي (hayyf

  1. feminine of هاد(hād): (Syria) this
    Synonyms: (Lebanon) هيدي(haydi), (before the definite article) هـ(ha-)

Sindhi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Compare Punjabi ਇਹ (iha).”

Pronoun[edit]

هي () (Devanagari ही)

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

Determiner[edit]

هي (m (Devanagari ही)

  1. this

South Levantine Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ(hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hij.je/, [ˈhij.je]
  • (file)

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hiyyef, enclitic form ـها(-ha)

  1. she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)
See also[edit]
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[edit]

Determiner[edit]

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[edit]
    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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ(hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hiyyaf

  1. she (subject pronoun)