# ى

| ى | U+0649, &#1609; ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA |
| ← و [U+0648] | Arabic | ي → [U+064A] |
| ﻯ | U+FEEF, &#65263; ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM |
| ← ﻮ [U+FEEE] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﻰ → [U+FEF0] |
| ﻰ | U+FEF0, &#65264; ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA FINAL FORM |
| ← ﻯ [U+FEEF] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﻱ → [U+FEF1] |
| ﯨ | U+FBE8, &#64488; ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA INITIAL FORM |
| ← ﯧ [U+FBE7] | Arabic Presentation Forms-A | ﯩ → [U+FBE9] |
| ﯩ | U+FBE9, &#64489; ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA MEDIAL FORM |
| ← ﯨ [U+FBE8] | Arabic Presentation Forms-A | ﯪ → [U+FBEA] |

## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* 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)
| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |
* 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 نَبِیࣰّاJesus 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

Alternative scripts :
| Arabic | ى |
| Cyrillic | Ы, ы/І, і |
| Latin | Y, y/ı, ı |
| Yañalif | Ь, ь/J, j (, /J, j) |

### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ja/
* (phoneme): IPA: /ə/ (back)
* (phoneme): IPA: /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.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |

#### 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

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* (Name of letter) IPA: [jə]
* (Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA: [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

## Uyghur
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /i/
* (phoneme): IPA: /i/, /ɪ/, /ɯ/

### Letter

ى • (i)
* The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ى | ـى | ـىـ | ىـ |

#### Usage notes

* UYY - ULY: Ii
* USY: Ии

### See also

* Previous letter: ئې (ë)