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Contents
ArabicEdit
LetterEdit
ـَى • (-ā)
| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
|---|---|---|---|
| ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |
- Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Also called أَلِف لَيِّنَة (ʾalif layyina, “flexible alif”). Its occurrence is rare. Its pronunciation length is usually short:
- North Africa: [æ], [ɑ]
- The Levant: [a], [ɑ]
- Arabia: [æ], [a], [ɑ]
- Persian Gulf: [ɐ]
- When pronounced longly, it is often in careful Literary Arabic pronunciation or in reciting the Quran. All long pronunciations have the same vowel values, with the exception of the gulf pronunciation, the lengthened pronunciation is only [ɑː].
- The yāʾ ي (y) in the final position, as spelled by the Egyptians and the Sudanese. This was the original form of the letter in final position for both of -ī and -ā, before the creation of ي (y).
SuffixEdit
ـَى or ـَا • (-ā or -ā)
MalayEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
ى / ـى
- The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
See alsoEdit
- (Arabic script letters) حروف; ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ [edit]