هكذا
Arabic
Etymology
From هَا (hā) + كَذَا (kaḏā). The determiner use is an influence from dialectal Arabic, where this construction is common.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haː.ka.ðaː/
Adverb
هٰكَذَا • (hākaḏā)
- so, thus, this way, like this
- لَمْ أَكُنْ أَظُنُّكَ هٰكَذَا
- lam ʔakun ʔaẓunnuka hākaḏā
- I never thought you were like that.
Descendants
- Maltese: hekkda
- Hijazi Arabic: كِذا (kida)
- Moroccan Arabic: هاكدا (hākda), هاكا (hākka)
- South Levantine Arabic: هيك (hēk)
- → Azerbaijani: hakəza
- → Classical Persian: هَٰکَذَا (hākazā)
- → Uzbek: hokazo
- → Ottoman Turkish:
- Turkish: hakeza
Determiner
هَٰكَذَا • (hākaḏā)
- (Modern Standard Arabic, proscribed) such, such a
- Synonyms: (prepositioned) مِثْلُ هٰذَا (miṯlu hāḏā), (postpositioned) كَهٰذَا (kahāḏā), مِن هٰذَا القَبِيل (min hāḏā l-qabīl)
- 2024 January 30, “بغداد ترد على تصريحات نائب أميركي بشأن رئيس مجلس القضاء العراقي”, in Alhurra[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2024:
- وَتَأَسَّفَتِ ٱلْوِزَارَةُ "مُحاوَلَاتِ إِقْحَامِ ٱلْكُونْغْرِسِ فِي هٰكَذَا قَضايَا، لِكَوْنِهَا تُشَكِّلُ تَدَخُّلًا فِي سِيَادَةِ ٱلدُّوَلِ وَأَنْظِمَتِهَا ٱلْقَضَائِيَّةِ".
- wataʔassafati l-wizāratu "muḥāwalāti ʔiqḥāmi l-kūnḡrisi fī hākaḏā qaḍāyā, likawnihā tušakkilu tadaḵḵulan fī siyādati d-duwali wa-ʔanẓimatihā l-qaḍāʔiyyati".
- The ministry deplored “attempts to involve Congress in such cases, because they constitute an interference in the sovereignty and judicial bodies of [other] countries”.