هی

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See also: هي and ہی

Ottoman Turkish

Interjection

هی • (hеy)

  1. alternative form of های (hay)

Persian

Etymology 1

Dialectal or alternative variant of classical همی (hamē), which is also the source of the verbal prefix می (mi-).

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? hey

Adverb

هی • (hey) (chiefly Iran)

  1. repeatedly, continuously; keep...
    او هی می‌گفت مشکلی نیست.
    u hey mi-goft moškeli nist.
    He kept saying "no problem."
    مادرش اینا هی زنگ زدن.
    mâdar-eš inâ hey zang zadan.
    His mom and the rest kept calling on the phone.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hey

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Dari reading? hay, hē
Iranian reading? hey

Interjection

هی • (hey)

  1. hey, hi
    هی! ― hey ― hey!

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? hē
Dari reading? hē

Noun

Dari هی
Iranian Persian هِ, هِه
Tajik Ҳе

هی • (hē) (Classical Persian, Dari)

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