ܗܝ

Likely a univerbation of ܗܵܐ (hā, “behold”) and Aramaic הִיא (hī, “she”), from Proto-Semitic *šiʔa; compare Arabic هِيَ (hiya), Hebrew הִיא (hi) and Akkadian 𒅆𒄿 (šī).

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ܗ̇ܝ • (aya) f sg (masculine ܗ̇ܘ (awa), masculine plural ܗܸܢܘܿܢ (hinōn), feminine plural ܗܸܢܹܝܢ (hinnēn))

1. (personal) she, it
2. (intensive) she herself, it itself
3. (dialectal, demonstrative) that

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic does not have a neuter gender. The sense of “it” comes when translating Assyrian inanimate nouns that are grammatically feminine into English inanimate nouns that are usually neuter.
• As an intensive pronoun, ܗ̇ܝ (aya) must come before the noun it describes.

• ܗܝܼܵܝܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ (hīyāyūṯā, “identity”)
• ܗܝܼܟ݂ܲܕ݂ܗܝܼܵܝܵܐ (hīḵaḏhīyāyā, “identical”)

Aramaic הי (hāy, “that”).

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ܗܵܝ • (hāy) f sg (masculine ܗܵܘ (hāw))

1. the, that (not physically present)
2. (dialectal, proscribed) used as primary meaning for plurals

• ܗ̇ܝܗܵܐ (hihā, “that”)

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa.

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ܗܝ • (hī) f (plural ܗܢܝܢ, masculine singular ܗܘ, masculine plural ܗܢܘܢ)

1. (personal) she, it
2. (intensive) she herself, it itself
3. sometimes used somewhat like a definite article; the

• Syriac does not have a neuter gender. The sense of "it" comes when translating Syriac inanimate nouns that are grammatically feminine into English inanimate nouns that are usually neuter.
• As an intensive pronoun, ܗܝ (hī) must come before the noun it describes.

Modified from above, with the initial consonant quiescing.

• -ܝ (-y)

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ܗܝ • (ī, -y) f (plural ܐܢܝܢ, feminine singular ܗܘ, feminine plural ܐܢܘܢ)

1. an enclitic used as a copula for a third-person singular feminine subject; she is, it is
2. (with a preceding first- or second-person singular pronoun) an enclitic used as a copula for a singular feminine subject; (I) am, (you) are

• Usually, the form ܗܝ (ī) is written separately from the word it follows while the alternative form -ܝ (-y) is written together with the word it follows.

• ܐܝܬܝܗ

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ܗܝ • (hāy) f (plural ܗܢܝܢ, singular masculine counterpart ܗܘ, plural masculine counterpart ܗܢܘܢ)

1. (demonstrative) that

• As an attributive adjective, ܗܝ (hāy) can come either before or after the noun it describes without any change in meaning.

ܗܝ • (hāy) f (plural ܗܢܝܢ, masculine singular ܗܘ, masculine plural ܗܢܘܢ)

1. (demonstrative) that thing, that one
2. used somewhat like a definite article; the

• The sense of the definite article "the" is used especially when translating Ancient Greek texts, being the equivalent of the Ancient Greek feminine singular definite article ἡ (hē).

• “hy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2011-06-11
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 74a-b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 103a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 339b