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The hamza (Arabic: هَمْزَة hamza) (ء ) is an Arabic script character that, in the Arabic alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other features, depending on the language.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Arabic alphabet has 28 basic letters, plus hamzah (ء). The Arabic definite article is ال al- (i.e. the letter alif followed by lām ). The lām in al- is pronounced if the letter after it is ألقَمرية ( al-qamarīyyah , lunar), but if the letter after it is ألشَّمسية ( ash-shamsīyyah , solar), the lām after it becomes ...
In texts with diacritical marks, the pronunciation of an aleph as a consonant is rarely indicated by a special marking, hamza in Arabic and mappiq in Tiberian Hebrew. In later Semitic languages, aleph could sometimes function as a mater lectionis indicating the presence of a vowel elsewhere (usually long). When this practice began is the ...
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.
In most European languages, it is mostly romanized as the digraph kh. [1] When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ח׳. The most common transliteration in English is "kh", e.g. Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), Sheikh (شيخ), Kazakhstan (كازاخستان).
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ʿ ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Arabic ʿayn ع , Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Hebrew ʿayin ע , Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, and Syriac ʿē ܥ (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
Hamza (also spelled as Hamzah, Hamsah, Hamzeh or Humza; Arabic: حَمْزَة, romanized: Ḥamzah) is an Arabic masculine given name in the Muslim world. It means lion, strong, and steadfast. [ 1 ] It was borne by one of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's uncles, Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib , a wrestler and an archer who was renowned for his ...