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)
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)
2^nd person	f	إِيَّاكِ (ʔiyyāki)	إِيَّاكُمَا (ʔiyyākumā)	إِيَّاكُنَّ (ʔiyyākunna)
3^rd person	m	إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu)	إِيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā)	إِيَّاهُمْ (ʔiyyāhum)
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)
2^nd person	f	ـكِ (-ki)	ـكُمَا (-kumā)	ـكُنَّ (-kunna)
3^rd person	m	ـهُ (-hu), ـهِ (-hi)⁴	ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)³	ـهُم (-hum), ـهِم (-him)⁴
3^rd person	f	ـهَا (-hā)	ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)³	ـهُنَّ (-hunna), ـهِنَّ (-hinna)³

1. Also used to emphasize attached pronouns and as a copula.
2. هُمْ (hum) becomes هُمُ (humu) before 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. 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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hi]

Pronoun

هِي • (hī) (Devanagari ही)

he; masculine third-person singular proximal personal pronoun
this

References

Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “هِي”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

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)

Egyptian Arabic personal pronouns
		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)

Hijazi Arabic personal pronouns
		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)

Moroccan Arabic personal pronouns
		Singular	Plural
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)

North Levantine Arabic personal pronouns
		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)

South Levantine Arabic personal pronouns
		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)