هي

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hi.ja/
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun[edit]

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

Descendants[edit]

  • Chadian Arabic: هي (hī)
  • 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]

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[edit]

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

Chadian Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronoun[edit]

هي (hī) f

  1. she (subject pronoun)

Egyptian Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

هي • (híyya) f

  1. she (subject pronoun)

See also[edit]

Egyptian Arabic personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person أنا (ʾana) إحنا (ʾiḥna)
2nd person m إنت (ʾinta) إنتوا (ʾintu)
f إنتي (ʾinti)
3rd person m هو (huwwa) هم (humma, hum)
f هي (hiyya)

Hijazi Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

هي • (hiyya) f

  1. she (subject pronoun)

See also[edit]

Moroccan Arabic personal pronouns
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 1[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronoun[edit]

هي • (hiyye) f

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

Pronoun[edit]

هي • (hayy) f

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

Determiner[edit]

هي • (hayy) f

  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]

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هي • (hī) (Devanagari ही)

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

Determiner[edit]

هي • (hī) m (Devanagari ही)

  1. this

South Levantine Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Pronoun[edit]

هي • (hiyye) f (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 (hiyya) f

  1. she (subject pronoun)
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