هكذا

Arabic

Etymology

From هَا () +‎ 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (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”.