# ها
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haː/

### Particle

هَا • (hā)
* behold, look, lo!

#### Derived terms

* هَٰذَا (hāḏā)

#### Descendants

* → Old Galician-Portuguese: ei, ex, ey
** Galician: eis
** Portuguese: ei, eis
* → Old Spanish: he
** Spanish: he

### Pronoun

ـهَا • (-hā) f sg (enclitic form of هِيَ (hiya))
* her (bound object pronoun)
* it, its (bound object pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of feminine gender)
* them, their (bound object pronoun, non-human)

#### 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).

## Egyptian Arabic
### Suffix

ـها • (-ha) f sg
* her (bound object pronoun)

## North Levantine Arabic
### Alternative forms

* ـا

### Suffix

ـها • (-a, -ha, -wa, -ya) f
* Enclitic form of هي (hiyye)
* she, her

#### Usage notes

* The pronunciation in careful speech is “-ha”, but the “h” is in the process of being lost. Some speakers currently use “-a” after a consonant and “-ha” after a vowel or diphthong, and some others use “-ya” after vowels and diphthongs instead, but it's most-common for it to assimilate to the preceding sound:
** “-a” after a consonant
** “-ha” after the vowel “a”
** “-wa” after the vowel “o”/“u”
** “-ya” after the vowel “e”/“i” and the diphthong “ay”
* It might also be spelled as ـا when it's pronounced as “-a”, “-wa” or “-ya”.
* The form with “h” attracts stress to the syllable before it automatically. The form with a dropped “h” still behaves this way for some speakers, but others allow the automatic stress rules to take precedent:
** كَتَبهَا (“he wrote her”) can only be pronounced katábha, but كَتَبَا (“he wrote her”) can be either katába or kátaba.
** جَرِّبهَا (“try it!”, masculine imperative) can only be pronounced jarríbha, but جَرّبَا (“try it!”) can be either jarríba or járrba.

#### See also

North Levantine Arabic enclitic pronouns :
| | | Singular | Singular | Plural |
| | | after consonant | after vowel | Plural |
| 1st person | after verb | ـني (-ni) | ـني (-ni) | ـنا (-na) |
| 1st person | else | ـِي (-i) | ـي (-y) | ـنا (-na) |
| 2nd person | m | ـَك (-ak) | ـك (-k) | ـكُن (-kun) |
| 2nd person | f | ـِك (-ek) | ـكِ (-ki) | ـكُن (-kun) |
| 3rd person | m | ـُه (-o) | ـه (-h) | ـهُن (-(h/w/y)un) |
| 3rd person | f | ـها (-(h/w/y)a) | ـها (-(h/w/y)a) | | ـهُن (-(h/w/y)un) |

## South Levantine Arabic
### Suffix

ـها • (-ha) f
* Enclitic form of هي (hiyye)
* she, her

#### See also

South Levantine Arabic enclitic pronouns :
| | | Singular | Singular | Plural |
| | | after consonant | after vowel | Plural |
| 1st person | after verb | ـني (-ni) | ـني (-ni) | ـنا (-na) |
| 1st person | else | ـِي (-i) | ـي (-y) | ـنا (-na) |
| 2nd person | m | ـَك (-ak) | ـك (-k) | ـكُم (-kom) / ـكو (-ku) |
| 2nd person | f | ـِك (-ek) | ـكي (-ki) | ـكُم (-kom) / ـكو (-ku) |
| 3rd person | m | ـُه (-o) | ـه (-h) | ـهُم (-hom) |
| 3rd person | f | ـها (-ha) | ـها (-ha) | | ـهُم (-hom) |