# هو
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Arabic) IPA: /hu.wa/
** (pausa) IPA: /hu.wah/ or IPA: /huː/
** (with a preceding وَ (wa) or فَ (fa)) IPA: /wa.hu.wa/, IPA: /wah.wa/, IPA: /fa.hu.wa/, IPA: /fah.wa/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *šuʔa.

#### Pronoun

هُوَ • (huwa) m (genitive ـهُ (-hu) or ـهِ (-hi), accusative ـهُ (-hu) or ـهِ (-hi) or إِيَّاهُ (ʔiyyāhu))
* he (subject pronoun)
** (Sufism) Allah, God
* it (subject pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of masculine gender)
* having a copulative effect, usually inserted when both the مُبْتَدَأ (mubtadaʔ) and خَبَر (ḵabar) are definite.
    اَلْوَقْت هُوَ اَلْمَال.al-waqt huwa l-māl.Time is money.
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:96:وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ أَن يُعَمَّرَwamā huwa bimuzaḥziḥihi mina l-ʕaḏābi ʔan yuʕammaraBut even if they were to live that long, it would not save them from the punishment.

##### Further reading

* Huwa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

#### 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).

### Etymology 2

From هُوَ (huwa, “it”), calqued from German Es, possibly through Latin id.

#### Noun

هُوَ • (huwa) m
* (psychology) id

##### Declension
#### References

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

## Bakhtiari
### Etymology

From Old Persian 𐏃𐎠𐎢𐎺 (hauv), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *só (“name”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀 (ha).

### Noun

هو (ho)
* he, that
    هو کجه بی؟ ― ho kojeh bi? ― Where was he?

## Chadian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

### Pronoun

هو • (hū) m
* he (subject pronoun)

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhowwæ/

### Pronoun

هو • (húwwa) m
* he (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 هُوَ (huwa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huw.wa/

### Pronoun

هو • (huwwa) m, enclitic form ـه (-u).
* he (subject pronoun)
* it (subject pronoun, referring to animals and inanimate nouns of masculine 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) |

## Khalaj
### Noun

هَو (həv) (definite accusative هَوی, plural هَولَر)
* Arabic spelling of həv (“house”)

#### Declension
## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huw.wa/

### Pronoun

هو • (huwwa) m
* he (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

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

### Pronoun

هو • (huwwe) m
* he (subject pronoun)
    Enclitic form: ـه (-o/-h)

#### 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) |

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ho/
* (Northeastern) IPA: /ɑo/

### Adverb

هو • (ho)
* yes

## Persian
### Etymology

Probably dialectal variant of هبر (habar, “pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap-; cognate with English sap. Compare Central Kurdish ھەو (hew, “pus, inflammation”).

### Noun

هو • (how)
* pus

#### Descendants

* Middle Armenian: հու (hu) (possibly)

#### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “هو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հու”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 421

## Sindhi
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hu]

### Pronoun

هُو • (hū) (Devanagari हू)
* that

### References

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

## Soqotri
### Alternative forms

* هوهن (hóhon)

### Etymology

Akin to Mehri [script needed] (hû), Shehri [script needed] (he).

### Pronoun

هو (ho)
* I. first-person singular pronoun
** 2014, “The Story of the Makon”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 66, line 12:عٞامٞر: دمنؤو أه؟ عامُر: هو رجدهيʕémər di-mənóʔo ɛ ʕö́mor ho rígdihiThey asked: "Where are you from?" He said: "I am from Rigdiho."

### References

* Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 549
* Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 470
* Leslau, Wolf (1938) “ho”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 138

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هُوَ (huwa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huw.we/, [ˈhʊw.we]
* Audio (Jerusalem):(file)

### Pronoun

هو • (huwwe) m (enclitic form ـه (-o, -h))
* he (third-person masculine 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) |

## Tunisian Arabic
### Pronoun

هُوَّ (huwwa) m (f هي, pl هما)
* he (subject pronoun)