هی

See also: هي and ہی

Ottoman Turkish

Interjection

هی • (hеy)

alternative form of های (hay)

Persian

Etymology 1

From English hey

Pronunciation

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj], [heː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäj], [ʔeː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäj], [ʔeː]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hej]

Readings

Dari reading^?	hay, hē
Iranian reading^?	hey

Interjection

هی • (hey)

hey, hi
― hey ― hey!

Adverb

هی • (hey)

repeatedly; continuously
― u hey mi-goft moškel-i nist ― he kept saying “no problem”

Etymology 3

Derived from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [heː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [heː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔeː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔeː]

Readings
Classical reading^?	hē
Dari reading^?	hē

Noun


Dari	هی
Iranian Persian	هِ, هِه
Tajik	Ҳе

هی • (hē) (Classical Persian, Dari)

Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه.

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