ها

• IPA^(key): /haː/

هَا • (hā)

1. behold, look, lo!

• هَٰذَا (hāḏā)

• → Galician: eis
• → Portuguese: eis
• → Spanish: he

ـهَا • (-hā) f sg (enclitic form of هِيَ (hiya))

1. her (bound object pronoun)
2. it, its (bound object pronoun, referring to inanimate nouns of feminine gender)
3. them, their (bound object pronoun, non-human)

ـها • (-ha) f sg

1. her (bound object pronoun)

• ـا

ـها • (-a, -ha, -wa, -ya) f

1. Enclitic form of هي (hiyye)
2. she, her

• 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.

ـها • (-ha) f

2. Enclitic form of هي (hiyye)
3. she, her