# هي
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šiʔa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hi.ja/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

هِيَ • (hiya) f, enclitic form ـهَا (-hā)
* she (subject pronoun).
    هِيَ طَبِيبَةٌ ― hiya ṭabībatun ― She is a doctor
* it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of feminine gender)
    سَاحِلُ العَاجِ هِيَ دَوْلَةٌ تَقَعُ غَرْبَ أَفْرِيقْيَاsāḥilu l-ʕāji hiya dawlatun taqaʕu ḡarba ʔafrīqyāCote d'Ivoire is a country that is located in West Africa
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:16:وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاهِيَةٌwa-nšaqqati s-samāʔu fa-hiya yawmaʔiḏin wāhiyatunThe sky will then be so torn that it will be frail
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:41:فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىfa-ʔinna l-jannata hiya al-maʔwāParadise will certainly be [their] home.
* they (subject pronoun, non-human).
** 2019 May 4, “ما هي القضايا التي ناقشها ترامب وبوتين في مكالمتهما؟”, in BBC Arabic‎:

#### Descendants

* Chadian Arabic: هي (hī)
* Egyptian Arabic: هي (híyya)
* Gulf Arabic: اِهْيَ (ehya)
* Hijazi Arabic: هِيَّ (hiyya)
* Maltese: hija, hi
* Moroccan Arabic: هي (hiyya)
* Tunisian Arabic: هي (hiyya)

#### See also

1. Also used to emphasize attached pronouns and as a copula. 2. هُمْ (hum) becomes هُمُ (humu) before the definite article الـ (al--). 3. 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)). 4. ـهِـ (-hi-) occurs after -i, -ī, or -ay, and ـهُـ (-hu-) elsewhere (after -a, -ā, -u, -ū, -aw).

#### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “هي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Chadian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

### Pronoun

هي • (hī) f
* she (subject pronoun)

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhijjæ/

### Pronoun

هي • (híyya) f
* she (subject pronoun)

#### See also

Egyptian Arabic personal pronouns :
| | | singular | plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | أنا (ʔana) | إحنا (ʔiḥna) |
| 2nd person | m | إنت (ʔinta) | إنتوا (ʔintu) |
| 2nd person | f | إنتي (ʔinti) | إنتوا (ʔintu) |
| 3rd person | m | هو (huwwa) | هم (humma, hum) |
| 3rd person | f | هي (hiyya) | هم (humma, hum) |

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hij.ja/

### Pronoun

هي • (hiyya) f, enclitic form ـهَا (-ha).
* she (subject pronoun)
* it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of feminine gender)

#### See also

Hijazi Arabic personal pronouns :
| | | Singular | Plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | أَنَا (ʔana) | إِحْنَا (ʔiḥna) / نِحْنَ (niḥna) |
| 2nd person | m | إِنْتَ (ʔinta) | إِنْتُو (ʔintu) |
| 2nd person | f | إِنْتِ (ʔinti) / إِنْتِي (ʔinti) | إِنْتُو (ʔintu) |
| 3rd person | m | هُوَّ (huwwa) | هُمَّ (humma) |
| 3rd person | f | هِيَّ (hiyya) | هُمَّ (humma) |

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hij.ja/

### Pronoun

هي • (hiyya) f
* she (subject pronoun)

### See also

Moroccan Arabic personal pronouns :
| | | Singular | Plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | آنا (ʔāna), أنا (ʔana) | حنا (ḥnā) |
| 2nd person | m | انت (ntā), انتينا (ntīna), انتين (ntīn) | انتوما (ntūma), انتوم (ntūm) |
| 2nd person | f | انت (ntī), انتينا (ntīna), انتين (ntīn) | انتوما (ntūma), انتوم (ntūm) |
| 3rd person | m | هو (huwwa) | هوما (hūma), هوم (hūm) |
| 3rd person | f | هي (hiyya) | هوما (hūma), هوم (hūm) |

## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

#### Pronoun

هي • (hiyye) f
* she (subject pronoun)
    Enclitic form: ـها (-(h/w/y)a)

##### See also

North Levantine Arabic personal pronouns :
| | | Singular | Plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | أنا (ʔana) | نحنا (niḥna) |
| 2nd person | m | انت (ʔinta, ʔinte) | انتو (ʔintu) |
| 2nd person | f | انتي (ʔinti) | انتو (ʔintu) |
| 3rd person | m | هو (huwwe) | هن (hinne) / هنن (hinnen) |
| 3rd person | f | هي (hiyye) | هن (hinne) / هنن (hinnen) |

### Etymology 2

From the form هَيِّي (hayye, hayyi) attested in Damascene (compare the development of شويّ (šwayy) and ميّ (ṃayy)), which may be an irregular lenition of an earlier form *هَيْذِي (hayḏe, hayḏi). In the Lebanese form هيدي (hayde, haydi), the ذ (ḏ) of *هيذي regularly evolved into د (d) instead of leniting.

#### Pronoun

هي • (hayy) f
* feminine of هاد (hād): (Syria) this
    Synonym: (Lebanon) هيدي (haydi)

#### Determiner

هي • (hayy) f
* feminine of هاد (hād): (Syria) this
    Synonyms: (Lebanon) هيدي (haydi), (before the definite article) هـ (ha-)

## Sindhi
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Compare Punjabi ਇਹ (iha).”

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hi]

### Pronoun

هِي • (hī) (Devanagari ही)
* he; masculine third-person singular proximal personal pronoun
* this

### References

* Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “هِي”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hij.je/, [ˈhij.je]
* Audio (Jerusalem):(file)

#### Pronoun

هي • (hiyye) f (enclitic form ـها (-ha))
* she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

##### See also

South Levantine Arabic personal pronouns :
| | | Singular | Plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | أنا (ʔana) | احنا (ʔiḥna) |
| 2nd person | m | انت (ʔinta) | انتو (ʔintu) |
| 2nd person | f | انتي (ʔinti) | انتو (ʔintu) |
| 3rd person | m | هو (huwwe) | هم (homme) |
| 3rd person | f | هي (hiyye) | هم (homme) |

### Etymology 2
#### Determiner

هيّ • (hayy)
* this here
    هيّ الكتاب اللي سألتني عنّه.hayy li-ktāb illi saʔalt-ni ʕannoThis here is the book you asked me about.
* (by extension) used to stress the current nature of an action
    هيّني جاي من البنك. ― hayy-ni jāy min il-bank ― I'm coming right now from the bank.
    هيّ فيه واحد طالع من ورا الشجرة.hayy fīh wāḥad ṭāleʕ min wara š-šajaraThere's someone coming out right now from behind the tree.

##### Inflection
## Tunisian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hij.ja/

### Pronoun

هي (hiyya) f
* she (subject pronoun)