هی

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See also: هي and ہی

Ottoman Turkish

Interjection

هی (hеy)

  1. alternative form of های (hay)

Persian

Etymology 1

From English hey

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Dari reading? hay, hē
Iranian reading? hey

Interjection

هی (hey)

  1. hey, hi
    هی!heyhey!

Etymology 2

Adverb

هی (hey)

  1. repeatedly; continuously
    او هی می‌گفت مشکلی نیستu hey mi-goft moškel-i nisthe kept saying “no problem”

Etymology 3

Derived from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?
Dari reading?

Noun

Dari هی
Iranian Persian هِ, هِه
Tajik Ҳе

هی () (Classical Persian, Dari)

  1. Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه.