هو

• (Standard Arabic) IPA^(key): /hu.wa/
  • (pausa) IPA^(key): /hu.wah/ or IPA^(key): /huː/
  • (with a preceding وَ (wa) or فَ (fa)) IPA^(key): /wa.hu.wa/, IPA^(key): /wah.wa/, IPA^(key): /fa.hu.wa/, IPA^(key): /fah.wa/

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Inherited from Proto-Semitic *šuʔa.

هُوَ • (huwa) m (genitive ـهُ (-hu) or ـهِ (-hi), accusative ـهُ (-hu) or ـهِ (-hi) or إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu))

1. he (subject pronoun)
   1. (Sufism) Allah, God
2. it (subject pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of masculine gender)
3. having a copulative effect, usually inserted when both the مُبْتَدَأ (mubtadaʔ) and خَبَر (ḵabar) are definite.

   اَلْوَقْت هُوَ اَلْمَال.

   al-waqt huwa l-māl.

   Time is money.

4. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:

     وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ أَن يُعَمَّرَ

     wamā huwa bimuzaḥziḥihi mina l-ʕaḏābi ʔan yuʕammara

     But even if they were to live that long, it would not save them from the punishment.

• Huwa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From هُوَ (huwa, “it”), calqued from German Es, possibly through Latin id.

هُوَ • (huwa) m

1. (psychology) id

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “هو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Old Persian 𐏃𐎠𐎢𐎺 (hauv), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só (“name”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀 (ha).

هو (ho)

1. he, that

   هو کجه بی؟ ― ho kojeh bi? ― Where was he?

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

هو • (hū) m

1. he (subject pronoun)

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhowwæ/

هو • (húwwa) m

1. he (subject pronoun)

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

• IPA^(key): /huw.wa/

هو • (huwwa) m, enclitic form ـه (-u).

1. he (subject pronoun)
2. it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of masculine gender)

هَو (həv) (definite accusative هَوی, plural هَولَر)

1. Arabic spelling of həv (“house”)

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

• IPA^(key): /huw.wa/

هو • (huwwa) m

1. he (subject pronoun)

Conventionally derived from Arabic هُوَ (huwa, “he”). See below for more detail.

The gemination of the w was likely a regular development of semivowels, seen also in هِيِّي (hiyye, “she”) from Arabic هِيَ (hiya); other examples include مِيِّة (miyye, “hundred”) from Arabic مِئَة (miʔa) (via an intermediate ungeminated *مِيَة (*miya, “hundred”)), رِيِّة (riyye, “lung”) from Arabic رِئَة (riʔa), and possibly لِيِّة (liyye, “tail fat of a sheep”) from Arabic أَلْيَة (ʔalya).

This innovated gemination is difficult to determine the extent of due to its occasionally affecting non-semivowels as well — see قِجِّة (ʔijje, “piggy bank”), هِنِّي (hinne, “they”), and regionally in Mount Lebanon جِهَّة (jihha, “side”), لِغَّة (liḡḡa, “language”)^[1] — but it seems to have affected semivowels most regularly, with the Mount Lebanon forms being an unrelated later shift that affected gutturals and the gemination in هِنِّي (hinne, “they”) also being a later analogical reshaping to match it to the shape of the other third-person pronouns.

هو • (huwwe) m

1. he (subject pronoun)

   Enclitic form: ـه (-o/-h)

• IPA^(key): /ho/
• (Northeastern) IPA^(key): /ɑo/

هو • (ho)

1. yes

Probably dialectal variant of هبر (habar, “pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap-; cognate with English sap. Compare Central Kurdish ھەو (hew, “pus, inflammation”).

هو • (how)

1. pus

• Middle Armenian: հու (hu) (possibly)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “هو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979), “հու”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 421

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [hu]

هُو • (hū) (Devanagari हू)

1. he, that; masculine third-person singular distal personal pronoun
2. they, those; third-person plural distal personal pronoun

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988), “هُو”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
• Trumpp, Ernest (1872), Grammar Of The Sindhi Language‎^[2], London, United Kingdom: Order of Her Majesty's Government for India, pages 198-199

• هوهن (hóhon)

Akin to Mehri [script needed] (hû), Shehri [script needed] (he).

هو (ho)

1. I. first-person singular pronoun
   • 2014, “The Story of the Makon”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 66, line 12:

     عٞامٞر: دمنؤو أه؟ عامُر: هو رجدهي

     ʕémər di-mənóʔo ɛ ʕö́mor ho rígdihi

     They asked: "Where are you from?" He said: "I am from Rigdiho."

• Naumkin, Vitaly; et al. (2014), “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 549
• Naumkin, Vitaly; et al. (2018), “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 470
• Leslau, Wolf (1938), “ho”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 138

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

• IPA^(key): /huw.we/, [ˈhʊw.we]

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هو • (huwwe) m (enclitic form ـه (-o, -h))

1. he (third-person masculine singular subject pronoun)

هُوَّ (huwwa) m (f هي, pl هما)

1. he (subject pronoun)