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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.
NB. Hamza has a special treatment: at the end of a closed syllable, it vanishes and lengthens the preceding vowel, e.g. /raʔs/ > [raːs] (see compensatory lengthening). If followed by /i/, it is realized as [j], /naːʔim/ > [naːjem]. These evolutions plead for a Hijazi origin of Levantine Arabic.
The standard pronunciation of ج in MSA varies regionally, most prominently in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of the Levant, Iraq, north-central Algeria, and parts of Egypt, it is also considered as the predominant pronunciation of Literary Arabic outside the Arab world and the pronunciation mostly used in Arabic loanwords across other languages ...
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. The romanization of the examples is based on the romanization system used on Wiktionary. See Hejazi Arabic phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Urban Hejazi Arabic.
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Egyptian Arabic phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Egyptian Arabic. The romanization of the examples is the commonly used form in Egypt.
The waṣla (Arabic: وَصْلَة , lit. 'an instance of connection') or hamzatu l-waṣli ( هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ , ' hamza of connection') is a variant of the letter hamza ( ء ) resembling part of the letter ṣād ( ص ) that is sometimes placed over the letter ʾalif at the beginning of the word ( ٱ ).
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 ...