ى
See also: ی [U+06CC ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH], ي [U+064A ARABIC LETTER YEH], ې [U+06D0 ARABIC LETTER E], ۍ [U+06CD ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TAIL], ۓ [U+06D3 ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE], and ئ [U+0626 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE]
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Arabic
Alternative forms
- Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, electronically, similar to the Persian ی.
Letter
ى • (-ā)
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |
- Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Also called أَلِف لَيِّنَة (ʔalif layyina, “flexible alif”). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:30:
- قَالَ إِنِّی عَبۡدُ ٱللَّهِ ءَاتَىٰنِیَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَجَعَلَنِی نَبِیࣰّا
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Semitic *-ay-.
Suffix
ـَى or ـَا • (-ā or -ā)
- Used to form feminine adjectives.
- دُنْيَا (dunyā)
- قُصْوَى (quṣwā)
- مَلْأَى (malʔā)
Kazakh
Cyrillic | Ы, ы/І, і (Y, y/ı, ı) |
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Arabic | ى |
Latin | Y, y/ı, ı |
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ja/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ə/ (back)
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɘ/, /i/ (front)
Letter
ى • (ı, i)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |
Usage notes
- Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.
See also
- ٸ (word-initial front-vowel varient)
- Previous letter: ۆ
- Next letter: ي
- (Arabic script letters) ا, ب, پ, ﺕ, ﺝ, ﭺ, ﺡ, ﺩ, ﺭ, ﺯ, ﺱ, ﺵ, ﻉ, ﻑ, ﻕ, ك, گ, ڭ, ﻝ, ﻡ, ﻥ, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي.
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [jə]
- (Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA(key): [ə]
Letter
ى / ـى
- The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
See also
- (Arabic script letters) حروف; ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ [edit]
Uyghur
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /i/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /i/
Letter
ى • (i)
- The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |
Usage notes
- UYY - ULY: Ii
- USY: Ии
See also
- Previous letter: ئې (ë)