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See also: ی , ي , ې , ۍ , ۓ , and ئ

ى U+0649, ى
ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
و
Arabic ي
U+FEEF, ﻯ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FEF0, ﻰ
ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA FINAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FBE8, ﯨ
ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA INITIAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-A
U+FBE9, ﯩ
ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA MEDIAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-A

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, when typed on electronic devices, which looks similar in shape to the Persian ی in its final or isolated form.

Etymology 1

Letter

ى ()

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ى ـى ـىـ ىـ
  1. 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
      Jesus declared, “I am truly a servant of Allah. He has destined me to be given the Scripture and to be a prophet.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Semitic *-ay-.

Suffix

ـَى or ـَا ( or )

  1. Used to form feminine adjectives.
    دُنْيَا (dunyā)
    قُصْوَى (quṣwā)
    مَلْأَى (malʔā)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ى
Cyrillic Ы, ы/І, і
Latin Y, y/ı, ı
Yañalif Ь, ь/J, j (, /J, j)

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ja/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ə/ (back)
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɘ/, /i/ (front)

Letter

ى (ı, i)

  1. 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
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

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key):
  • (Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA(key):

Letter

ى / ـى

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

Uyghur

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /i/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /i/, /ɪ/, /ɯ/

Letter

ى (i)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ى ـى ـىـ ىـ

Usage notes

See also

  • Previous letter: ئې (ë)