See also: ی [U+06CC ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH],
ي [U+064A ARABIC LETTER YEH],
ې [U+06D0 ARABIC LETTER E],
ۍ [U+06CD ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TAIL],
ۓ [U+06D3 ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE], and ئ [U+0626 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE]
| ﯨ | U+FBE8, ﯨ
ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA INITIAL FORM |
← ﯧ [U+FBE7]
| Arabic Presentation Forms-A
| ﯩ → [U+FBE9]
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| ﯩ | U+FBE9, ﯩ
ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA MEDIAL FORM |
← ﯨ [U+FBE8]
| Arabic Presentation Forms-A
| ﯪ → [U+FBEA]
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Acehnese
Pronunciation
- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [jə]
- (Phoneme) IPA(key): [ə]
Letter
ى (yë)
- The thirty-fifth letter of the Acehnese alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
| Isolated form |
Final form |
Medial form |
Initial form
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| ى |
ـى |
ـىـ |
ىـ
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See also
- Arabic script letters: حرف (haraih, harah) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, 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]
Arabic
- Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, when typed on electronic devices, which looks similar in shape to the Persian ی in its final or isolated form.
Etymology 1
Letter
ى • (-ā)
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Final form |
Medial form |
Initial form
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| ى |
ـى |
ـىـ |
ىـ
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- Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Called أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra, “limited, restricted alif”) or أَلِف لَيِّنَة (ʔalif layyina, “flexible alif”). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.
609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:30:قَالَ إِنِّی عَبۡدُ ٱللَّهِ ءَاتَىٰنِیَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَجَعَلَنِی نَبِیࣰّا- Jesus declared, “I am truly a servant of Allah. He has destined me to be given the Scripture and to be a prophet.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Semitic *-ay-.
Suffix
ـَى or ـَا • (-ā or -ā)
- used to form feminine adjectives
- دُنْيَا (dunyā)
- قُصْوَى (quṣwā)
- مَلْأَى (malʔā)
Kazakh
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ja/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ə/ (back)
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɘ/, /i/ (front)
Letter
ى • (ı, i)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.
| Isolated form |
Final form |
Medial form |
Initial form
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| ى |
ـى |
ـىـ |
ىـ
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Usage notes
- Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.
See also
- ٸ (word-initial front-vowel varient)
- Previous letter: ۆ
- Next letter: ي
- Arabic script letters: әріптер (ärıpter) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ج, چ, ح, د, ر, ز, س, ش, ع, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي [edit]
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [jə]
- (Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA(key): [ə]
Letter
ى / ـى
- The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
See also
- Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, 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]
Uyghur
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /i/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /i/, /ɪ/, /ɯ/
Letter
ى • (i)
- The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.
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Final form |
Medial form |
Initial form
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| ى |
ـى |
ـىـ |
ىـ
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Usage notes
See also