# هيه
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* هي

### Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa. Although the Third person Feminine Singular Personal pronoun هِيَ (hiya) occurs 63 times in Qur'an, this hāʔ-suffixed form occurs only once sentence-finally, making it a Hapax Legomenon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hi.jah/

### Pronoun

هِيَهْ • (hiyah) f
* (Qur'anic hapax) it (subject pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of feminine gender, fire in this instance)
    See also: هي
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 101:10-11:وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ ۝ نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ۝wamā ʔadrāka mā hiyah. nārun ḥāmiyatun.And what can make you know what that is? (It is) a fire, intensely hot.

#### Note

* Modern translations and interpretations almost universally translate this word as “that”.

#### See also

Arabic personal pronouns :
| Isolated nominative pronouns |||||
| | | singular | dual | plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | أَنَا (ʔanā) | نَحْنُ (naḥnu) | نَحْنُ (naḥnu) |
| 2nd person | m | أَنْتَ (ʔanta) | أَنْتُمَا (ʔantumā) | أَنْتُمْ (ʔantum) |
| 2nd person | f | أَنْتِ (ʔanti) | أَنْتُمَا (ʔantumā) | أَنْتُنَّ (ʔantunna) |
| 3rd person | m | هُوَ (huwa) | هُمَا (humā) | هُمْ (hum), هُمُ (humu)$^1$ |
| 3rd person | f | هِيَ (hiya) | هُمَا (humā) | هُنَّ (hunna) |
| Isolated accusative pronouns |||||
| | | singular | dual | plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | إِيَّايَ (ʔiyyāya) | إِيَّانَا (ʔiyyānā) | إِيَّانَا (ʔiyyānā) |
| 2nd person | m | إِيَّاكَ (ʔiyyāka) | إِيَّاكُمَا (ʔiyyākumā) | إِيَّاكُم (ʔiyyākum) |
| 2nd person | f | إِيَّاكِ (ʔiyyāki) | إِيَّاكُمَا (ʔiyyākumā) | إِيَّاكُنَّ (ʔiyyākunna) |
| 3rd person | m | إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu) | إِيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā) | إِيَّاهُمْ (ʔiyyāhum) |
| 3rd person | f | إِيَّاهَا (ʔiyyāhā) | إِيَّاهُمَا (ʔiyyāhumā) | إِيَّاهُنَّ (ʔiyyāhunna) |
| Enclitic accusative and genitive pronouns |||||
| | | singular | dual | plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | ـنِي (-nī), ـنِيَ (-niya), ـي (-y), ـيَ (-ya)$^2$ | ـنَا (-nā) | ـنَا (-nā) |
| 2nd person | m | ـكَ (-ka) | ـكُمَا (-kumā) | ـكُم (-kum) |
| 2nd person | f | ـكِ (-ki) | ـكُمَا (-kumā) | ـكُنَّ (-kunna) |
| 3rd person | m | ـهُ (-hu), ـهِ (-hi)$^3$ | ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)$^3$ | ـهُم (-hum), ـهِم (-him)$^3$ |
| 3rd person | f | ـهَا (-hā) | ـهُمَا (-humā), ـهِمَا (-himā)$^3$ | ـهُنَّ (-hunna), ـهِنَّ (-hinna)$^3$ |
| 1. هُمْ (hum) becomes هُمُ (humu) before the definite article الـ (al--). 2. Specifically, ـنِي (-nī, “me”) is attached to verbs, but ـِي (-ī) or ـيَ (-ya, “my”) is attached to nouns. In the latter case, ـيَ (-ya) is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a long vowel or diphthong (e.g. in the sound masculine plural and the dual), while ـِي (-ī) is attached to nouns whose construct state ends in a short vowel, in which case that vowel is elided (e.g. in the sound feminine plural, as well as the singular and broken plural of most nouns). Furthermore, -ū of the masculine sound plural is assimilated to -ī before ـيَ (-ya) (presumably, -aw of masculine defective -an plurals is similarly assimilated to -ay). Prepositions use ـِي (-ī) or ـيَ (-ya), even though in this case it has the meaning of “me” rather than “my”. The sisters of inna can use either form (e.g. إِنَّنِي (ʔinnanī) or إِنِّي (ʔinnī)). 3. ـهِـ (-hi-) occurs after -i, -ī, or -ay, and ـهُـ (-hu-) elsewhere (after -a, -ā, -u, -ū, -aw). |||||