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.]
(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.
