ه alphabetical letter ه
[The twenty-sixth letter of the alphabet; called
هَآءٌ: it is one of the class termed حَلْقِيَّةٌ [or guttural], and is a radical letter, except when written with two dots, ة; for which, and for the pronominal values of ه, &c., see the Supplement.
b2: As a numeral it denotes five.]
ه
ه
a. Hā
The twenty-sixth letter of the alphabet. Its numerical value is Five, (5).
هْ
a. Sometimes suffixed to exclamative expressions.
يَا أَسَفَاهْ O sorrow!
هُِ (a. pers. or pass. pron. suffixed ), Him.
b. His.
هَا
a. Her.
b. Hers.
هِيَ
a. She.
هَآء
a. There! Take!
b. Behold! Lo! Here!
هَاكَِ
a. Take!
هَاءَنَذَا
a. Behold me! Here I am!
هَاهُنَا
a. Here! This way!
هَا اللّهُ
a. By God! In God's Name!
هَارُوْن
a. Haroun; Aaron.
(Supplement) alphabetical letter ه
هُ: the vowel of this pron. is sometimes, in a case of pause, transferred to the preceding letter: and this is always done in modern Arabic.
b2: هْ subjoined in هُنَّهْ, and the like: see أَبْيَضُ.
b3: The هَا, termed تَنْبِيهٌ, is said by some to be used as an inceptive, without any meaning but inception. (See ذا.) See كَلِمَةُ تَنْبِيهٍ in art. نبه: and see an ex. voce تَا. When followed by a pronoun, as هو, &c., it is best rendered Lo.
b4: ه of pausation: see remarks on a verse cited voce حِينٌ.
b5: بِهَا, in حَطَأَ بِهَا, and many phrases syn. therewith, is app. for بِاسْتِهِ. See حَطَأَ.
هَآءَ and هَآءِ: see art. هوأ.
