هيك

• هَيكِي (hayke, hēke), (obsolete) هيكد (haykid)

Inherited from Arabic هَٰكَذَا (hākaḏā, “thus, so”) via an intermediate Levantine form resembling *هَيْكِذَا (*haykiḏā). This intermediate form eventually developed into هيكي (hayke) and later into هيك (hayk, hēk), which is the same variation as between terms like هوني (hawne, hōne) and هون (hōn, “here”).

The initial reduction of *هَيْكِذَا (*haykiḏā) to هيكي (hayke) could have happened in various ways, including via:

• Apocopated *هَيْكِذ (*haykiḏ), which additionally yielded South Levantine Arabic هيكذ (hēkiḏ) and obsolete North Levantine Arabic هَيْكِد (haykid)
• Syncopated *هَيْكَا (*haykā), which additionally yielded South Levantine Arabic هَيْكَا (hēka)

Either one of these forms could then have produced هيكي (hayke) and eventually هيك (hayk, hēk).

Cognate to Egyptian Arabic كِدَه (keda), كِدَا (keda), Moroccan Arabic هَكدَا (hākda), هَكَّا (hākka), Iraqi Arabic هَيچ (hīč), and others.

هيك • (hayk, hēk)

1. so, thus, like so
2. this way (i.e., direction), that way (i.e., direction) (e.g., to look this or that way, i.e., in this or that direction)
3. (by extension) this, that; used as a pronominal object of قال (ʔāl, “to say”), فكّر (fakkar, “to think”), and similar transitive verbs of expression, عِمِل (ʕimil, “to do”) and synonyms, and comparative مِن (min, “than”).

   ليه قلت هيك؟ ليه عملت هيك؟ فكرتك أحسن من هيك

   lē ʔilt hēk? lē ʕmilt hēk? fakkartak ʔaḥsan min hēk

   Why did you say that? Why did you do that? I thought you were better than this.

   (literally, “Why did you say so? Why did you do so? I thought you better than so”)

• The use of demonstratives like هيدا (hayda, “this”, proximal demonstrative) and especially هيداك (haydāk, “that”, distal demonstrative) in the contexts demonstrated by the last usage example, which would parallel English usage of "this" and "that", is ungrammatical.

هيك • (hayk, hēk)

1. such; such kind, this kind of

   ما فيي إتحمل هيك حكي منك!

   ma fiyyi ʔitḥammal hēk ḥaki minnak!

   I can’t stand this kind of talk from you!

• هيكي (hēke)

From Arabic هَٰكَذَا (hākaḏā, “thus, so”). Cognate to Egyptian Arabic كِدَه (keda), كِدَا (keda), Moroccan Arabic هَكدَا (hākda), هَكَّا (hākka), Iraqi Arabic هَيچ (hēč), and others.

• IPA^(key): /heːk/, [heːk]

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هيك • (hēk)

1. so, thus, like this, like that

   مش هيك؟ ― miš hēk? ― Isn't that so?

   لازم تعمله هيك. ― lāzem tiʕmelo hēk ― You have to do it like this.

2. (by extension) this, that

   هو أطول من هيك. ― hū ʔaṭwal min hēk ― He's taller than that.

   ما قلتش هيك. ― ma ʔult-š hēk ― I didn't say that. (literally, “I didn't say so.”)

• هيك هيك (hēk hēk, “such-and-such; anyway”)
• عشان هيك (ʕašān hēk, “therefore”)

هيك • (hēk)

1. such, like this, like that

   ما بحبّ أتعامل مع هيك ناس.

   mā baḥebb ʔatʕāmal maʕ hēk nās

   I don't like to interact with such people.

   كان فيه تلاتة أربعة هيك شي.

   kān fīh talāte ʔarbʕa hēk ši

   There were about three or four.

   (literally, “There were three, four, something like that.”)