هی

See also: هي and ہی

Ottoman Turkish

Interjection

هی • (hеy)

1. alternative form of های (hay)

Persian

Etymology 1

Dialectal or alternative variant of classical همی (hamē), which is also the source of the verbal prefix می (mi-).

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hej]

Readings
Iranian reading?	hey

Adverb

هی • (hey) (chiefly Iran)

1. repeatedly, continuously; keep...

   او هی می‌گفت مشکلی نیست.

   u hey mi-goft moškeli nist.

   He kept saying "no problem."

   مادرش اینا هی زنگ زدن.

   mâdar-eš inâ hey zang zadan.

   His mom and the rest kept calling on the phone.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hey

Pronunciation

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj], [heː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj], [heː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäj], [ʔeː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäj], [ʔeː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hej]

Readings
Dari reading?	hay, hē
Iranian reading?	hey

Interjection

هی • (hey)

1. hey, hi

   هی! ― hey ― hey!

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [heː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [heː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [heː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔeː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔeː]

Readings
Classical reading?	hē
Dari reading?	hē

Noun

Dari	هی
Iranian Persian	هِ, هِه
Tajik	Ҳе

هی • (hē) (Classical Persian, Dari)

1. Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه.