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Ottoman Turkish
Interjection
هی • (hеy)
- alternative form of های (hay)
Persian
Etymology 1
From English hey
Pronunciation
Readings
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Dari reading?
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hay, hē
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Iranian reading?
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hey
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Interjection
هی • (hey)
- hey, hi
- هی! ― hey ― hey!
Etymology 2
Adverb
هی • (hey)
- repeatedly; continuously
- او هی میگفت مشکلی نیست ― u hey mi-goft moškel-i nist ― he kept saying “no problem”
Etymology 3
Derived from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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hē
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Dari reading?
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hē
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Noun
Dari
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هی
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Iranian Persian
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هِ, هِه
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Tajik
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Ҳе
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هی • (hē) (Classical Persian, Dari)
- Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه.