هي

See also: ہی

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hi.ja/
Audio: (file)

Pronoun

هِيَ • (hiya) f, enclitic form ـهَا (-hā)

she (subject pronoun).
هِيَ طَبِيبَةٌ ― hiya ṭabībatun ― She is a doctor
it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of feminine gender)
سَاحِلُ العَاجِ هِيَ دَوْلَةٌ تَقَعُ غَرْبَ أَفْرِيقْيَا
sāḥilu l-ʕāji hiya dawlatun taqaʕu ḡarba ʔafrīqyā
Cote d'Ivoire is a country that is located in West Africa
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:16:
  وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌ
  wa-nšaqqati s-samāʔu fa-hiya yawmaʔiḏin wāhiyatun
  The sky will then be so torn that it will be frail
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:41:
  فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَى
  fa-ʔinna l-jannata hiya al-maʔwā
  Paradise will certainly be [their] home.
they (subject pronoun, non-human).
- 2019 May 4, “ما هي القضايا التي ناقشها ترامب وبوتين في مكالمتهما؟”, in BBC Arabic‎^[1]:

Descendants

Chadian Arabic: هي (hī)
Egyptian Arabic: هي (híyya)
Gulf Arabic: اِهْيَ (ehya)
Hijazi Arabic: هِيَّ (hiyya)
Maltese: hija, hi
Moroccan Arabic: هي (hiyya)
Tunisian Arabic: هي (hiyya)

Arabic personal pronouns
Isolated nominative¹ pronouns
		singular	dual	plural
1^st person		أَنَا (ʔanā)	نَحْنُ (naḥnu)
2^nd person	m	أَنْتَ (ʔanta)	أَنْتُمَا (ʔantumā)	أَنْتُمْ (ʔantum), أَنْتُمُ (ʔantumu)²
2^nd person	f	أَنْتِ (ʔanti)	أَنْتُمَا (ʔantumā)	أَنْتُنَّ (ʔantunna)
3^rd person	m	هُوَ (huwa)	هُمَا (humā)	هُمْ (hum), هُمُ (humu)²
3^rd person	f	هِيَ (hiya)	هُمَا (humā)	هُنَّ (hunna)

Isolated accusative pronouns
		singular	dual	plural
1^st person		إِيَّايَ (ʔiyyāya)	إِيَّانَا (ʔiyyānā)
2^nd person	m	إِيَّاكَ (ʔiyyāka)	إِيَّاكُمَا (ʔiyyākumā)	إِيَّاكُم (ʔiyyākum), إِيَّاكُمُ (ʔiyyākumu)²
2^nd person	f	إِيَّاكِ (ʔiyyāki)	إِيَّاكُمَا (ʔiyyākumā)	إِيَّاكُنَّ (ʔiyyākunna)
3^rd person	m	إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu)	إِيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā)	إِيَّاهُمْ (ʔiyyāhum), إِيَّاهُمُ (ʔiyyāhumu)²
3^rd person	f	إِيَّاهَا (ʔiyyāhā)	إِيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā)	إِيَّاهُنَّ (ʔiyyāhunna)

Enclitic accusative and genitive pronouns
		singular	dual	plural
1^st person		ـنِي (-nī), ـنِيَ (-niya), ـي (-y), ـيَ (-ya)³	ـنَا (-nā)
2^nd person	m	ـكَ (-ka)	ـكُمَا (-kumā)	ـكُم (-kum), ـكُمُ (-kumu)²
2^nd person	f	ـكِ (-ki)	ـكُمَا (-kumā)	ـكُنَّ (-kunna)
3^rd person	m	ـهُ (-hu), ـهِ (-hi)⁴	ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)⁴	ـهُم (-hum), ـهُمُ (-humu)², ـهِم (-him)⁴, ـهِمِ (-himi)^2,4
3^rd person	f	ـهَا (-hā)	ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)⁴	ـهُنَّ (-hunna), ـهِنَّ (-hinna)⁴

1. Also used to emphasize attached pronouns and as a copula.
2. ـمْ (-m) becomes ـمُ (-mu) (or ـمِ (-mi) with vowel harmony) before the so-called elidable hamza (such as the definite article الـ (al--)).
3. Specifically, ـنِي (-nī, “me”) is attached to verbs, but ـِي (-ī) or ـيَ (-ya, “my”) is attached to nouns. In the latter case, ـيَ (-ya) is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a long vowel or diphthong (e.g. in the sound masculine plural and the dual), while ـِي (-ī) is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a short vowel, in which case that vowel is elided (e.g. in the sound feminine plural, as well as the singular and broken plural of most nouns). Furthermore, -ū of the masculine sound plural is assimilated to -ī before ـيَ (-ya) (presumably, -aw of masculine defective -an plurals is similarly assimilated to -ay). Prepositions use ـِي (-ī) or ـيَ (-ya), even though in this case it has the meaning of “me” rather than “my”. The sisters of inna can use either form (e.g. إِنَّنِي (ʔinnanī) or إِنِّي (ʔinnī)).
4. Vowel harmony: ـهِـ (-hi-) occurs after -i, -ī, or -ay, and ـهُـ (-hu-) elsewhere (after -a, -ā, -u, -ū, -aw).

References

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

Chadian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronoun

هي • (hī) f

she (subject pronoun)

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhijjæ/

Pronoun

هي • (híyya) f

she (subject pronoun)

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hij.ja/

Pronoun

هي • (hiyya) f, enclitic form ـهَا (-ha).

she (subject pronoun)
it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of feminine gender)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hij.ja/

Pronoun

هي • (hiyya) f

she (subject pronoun)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronoun

هي • (hiyye) f

she (subject pronoun)
Enclitic form: ـها (-(h/w/y)a)

Etymology 2

From the form هَيِّي (hayye, hayyi) attested in Damascene (compare the development of شويّ (šwayy) and ميّ (ṃayy)), which may be an irregular lenition of an earlier form *هَيْذِي (hayḏe, hayḏi). In the Lebanese form هيدي (hayde, haydi), the ذ (ḏ) of *هيذي regularly evolved into د (d) instead of leniting.

Pronoun

هي • (hayy) f

(Syria) feminine of هاد (hād): this
Synonym: (Lebanon) هيدي (haydi)

Determiner

هي • (hayy) f

(Syria) feminine of هاد (hād): this
Synonyms: (Lebanon) هيدي (haydi), (before the definite article) هـ (ha-)

Sindhi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit एष (eṣa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hi]

Pronoun

هِي • (hī) (Devanagari ही)

he, this; masculine third-person singular proximal personal pronoun
they, these; third-person plural proximal personal pronoun

Related terms

Sindhi personal pronouns
person					direct	oblique	genitive	dative
1^st person	Singular				آئون (āū̃), مان (mā̃) • आउं, मां	مون (mū̃) • मूं	منهنجو (mũhinjo) • मुंहिंजो	مون کي (mū̃ khē) • मूं खे
1^st person	Plural				اسين (asī̃) • असीं	اسان (asā̃) • असां	اسان جو (asā̃ jo) • असां जो	اسان کي (asā̃ khe) • असां खे
2^nd person	Singular				تون (tū̃) • तूं	تو (to) • तो	تنهنجو (tũhinjo) • तुंहिंजो	تو کي (to khe) • तो खे
2^nd person	Plural				توهين (tavhī̃), اوهين (avhī̃) • तव्हीं, अव्हीं	توهان (tavhā̃), اوهان (avhā̃) • तव्हां, अव्हां	توهان جو (tavhā̃ jo) • तव्हां जो	توهان کي (tavhā̃ khe) • तव्हां खे
3^rd person	Nonspecific	Proximal	Singular	Masculine	هي (hī) • ही	هن (hina) • हिन	هن جو (hina jo) • हिन जो	هن کي (hina khe) • हिन खे
			Singular	Feminine	هيء (hīa) • हीअ	هن (hina) • हिन	هن جو (hina jo) • हिन जो	هن کي (hina khe) • हिन खे
			Plural		هي (hī) • ही	هنن (hinani) • हिननि	هنن جو (hinani jo) • हिननि जो	هنن کي (hinani khe) • हिननि खे
		Distal	Singular	Masculine	هو (hū) • हू	هن (huna) • हुन	هن جو (huna jo) • हुन जो	هن کي (huna khe) • हुन खे
			Singular	Feminine	هوء (hūa) • हूअ	هن (huna) • हुन	هن جو (huna jo) • हुन जो	هن کي (huna khe) • हुन खे
			Plural		هو (hū) • हू	هنن (hunani) • हुननि	هنن جو (hunani jo) • हुननि जो	هنن کي (hunani khe) • हुननि खे
	Specific	Proximal	Singular	Masculine	اهو (iho) • इहो	انهين (inhẽ) • इन्हें	انهين جو (inhẽ jo) • इन्हें जो	انهين کي (inhẽ khe) • इन्हें खे
			Singular	Feminine	اها (ihā) • इहा	انهين (inhẽ) • इन्हें	انهين جو (inhẽ jo) • इन्हें जो	انهين کي (inhẽ khe) • इन्हें खे
			Plural		اهي (ihe) • इहे	انهن (inhani) • इन्हनि	انهن جو (inhani jo) • इन्हनि जो	انهن کي (inhani khe) • इन्हनि खे
		Distal	Singular	Masculine	اهو (uho) • उहो	انهين (unhẽ) • उन्हें	انهين جو (unhẽ jo) • उन्हें जो	انهين کي (unhẽ khe) • उन्हें खे
			Singular	Feminine	اها (uhā) • उहा	انهين (unhẽ) • उन्हें	انهين جو (unhẽ jo) • उन्हें जो	انهين کي (unhẽ khe) • उन्हें खे
			Plural		اهي (uhe) • उहे	انهن (unhani) • उन्हनि	انهن جو (unhani jo) • उन्हनि जो	انهن کي (unhani khe) • उन्हनि खे

References

Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988), “هِي”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “هيِ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ēṣá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hij.je/, [ˈhij.je]
Audio (Jerusalem): (file)

Pronoun

هي • (hiyye) f (enclitic form ـها (-ha))

she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

Etymology 2

Determiner

هيّ • (hayy)

this here
هيّ ال كتاب اللي سألت ني عنّه.
hayy li-ktāb illi saʔalt-ni ʕanno
This here is the book you asked me about.
(by extension) used to stress the current nature of an action
هيّني جاي من البنك. ― hayy-ni jāy min il-bank ― I'm coming right now from the bank.

هيّ فيه واحد طالع من ورا الشجرة.
hayy fīh wāḥad ṭāleʕ min wara š-šajara
There's someone coming out right now from behind the tree.

Inflection

Inflection of هي

base form			هيّ (hayy)
Personal-pronoun including forms
	singular		plural
	m	f	plural
1^st person	هيّني (hayyni)		هيّنا (hayyna)
2^nd person	هيّك (hayyak)	هيّك (hayyek)	هيّكم (hayykom)
3^rd person	هيّه (hayyo)	هيّها (hayyha)	هيّهم (hayyhom)

Tunisian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hij.ja/

Pronoun

هي (hiyya) f

she (subject pronoun)

		singular	plural
1st person		أنا (ʔana)	إحنا (ʔiḥna)
2nd person	m	إنت (ʔinta)	إنتوا (ʔintu)
2nd person	f	إنتي (ʔinti)	إنتوا (ʔintu)
3rd person	m	هو (huwwa)	هم (humma, hum)
3rd person	f	هي (hiyya)	هم (humma, hum)

		Singular	Plural
1^st person		أَنَا (ʔana)	إِحْنَا (ʔiḥna) / نِحْنَ (niḥna)
2^nd person	m	إِنْتَ (ʔinta)	إِنْتُو (ʔintu)
2^nd person	f	إِنْتِ (ʔinti) / إِنْتِي (ʔinti)	إِنْتُو (ʔintu)
3^rd person	m	هُوَّ (huwwa)	هُمَّ (humma)
3^rd person	f	هِيَّ (hiyya)	هُمَّ (humma)

1^st person		آنا (ʔāna), أنا (ʔana)	حنا (ḥnā)
2^nd person	m	انت (ntā), انتينا (ntīna), انتين (ntīn)	انتوما (ntūma), انتوم (ntūm)
2^nd person	f	انت (ntī), انتينا (ntīna), انتين (ntīn)	انتوما (ntūma), انتوم (ntūm)
3^rd person	m	هو (huwwa)	هوما (hūma), هوم (hūm)
3^rd person	f	هي (hiyya)	هوما (hūma), هوم (hūm)

		Singular	Plural
1^st person		أنا (ʔana)	نحنا (niḥna)
2^nd person	m	انت (ʔinta, ʔinte)	انتو (ʔintu)
2^nd person	f	انتي (ʔinti)	انتو (ʔintu)
3^rd person	m	هو (huwwe)	هن (hinne) / هنن (hinnen)
3^rd person	f	هي (hiyye)	هن (hinne) / هنن (hinnen)

		Singular	Plural
1^st person		أنا (ʔana)	احنا (ʔiḥna)
2^nd person	m	انت (ʔinta)	انتو (ʔintu)
2^nd person	f	انتي (ʔinti)	انتو (ʔintu)
3^rd person	m	هو (huwwe)	هم (homme)
3^rd person	f	هي (hiyye)	هم (homme)