هن

Pronoun

 * 1) they (feminine plural subject pronoun)

Pronoun

 * 1) their, them (feminine plural bound object pronoun)

Etymology 3
Alteration of.

Noun

 * 1) thing, doofer
 * 2) self, own
 * 3) genital, pudendum

Etymology 4
Alteration of.

Verb

 * 1) to groan from desire

Etymology
From or.

Suffix

 * 1) Enclitic form of
 * 2) they, them, their

Etymology 1
Partly a continuation of, but considerably influenced by a pronoun borrowed from  and cognate to 🇨🇬. The final e vowel may have also arisen in analogy to the development of the other third-person pronouns:, , and.

superficially resembles enough that any other origin might appear questionable. However, some problems show up if we discard the Aramaic altogether:


 * is a gender-neutral pronoun, even though Arabic originally distinguished from . North Levantine Arabic varieties aren't alone in having replaced both with one  pronoun, but this common pronoun typically developed from : see  and  for examples from closely related varieties. What would have made North Levantine speakers settle on  gender-neutrally instead?
 * The initial u in differs from the i in . This could be explained by North Levantine Arabic's general tendency to merge u into i in initial closed syllables, but Behnstedt observes that the pronoun has i even in dialects that keep the two vowels distinct. These dialects would be expected to have preserved the u of.
 * A variant of this pronoun found widely in Syria is . The two pronunciations are nearly identical to the surviving 🇨🇬 and, but conspicuously different from , which lacks a second.
 * Additionally, there are Syrian varieties that do gender this pronoun, but in a strikingly Aramaic-like manner. Two examples from are  &  in  and  &  in.

Behnstedt points out that Aramaic offers an elegant solution to these problems, but notes that modern Syrian forms like from the vicinity of  and  in nearby  provide reason to account for influence from the Arabic pronoun as well.

The spelling is in direct association with Standard, while the alternative spellings follow the word's pronunciation.

Pronoun
or


 * 1) they
 * Enclitic form:

Etymology 2
From or.

Suffix

 * 1) Enclitic form of  or
 * 2) they, them, their

Usage notes

 * The pronunciation in careful speech is “-hun”, but the “h” is in the process of being lost. Some speakers currently use “-un” after a consonant and “-hun” after a vowel or diphthong, and some others use “-yun” after vowels and diphthongs instead, but it's most-common for it to assimilate to the preceding sound:
 * “-un” after a consonant
 * “-hun” or “-un” after the vowel “a”
 * “-wun” after the vowel “o”/“u”
 * “-yun” after the vowel “e”/“i” and the diphthong “ay”
 * It might also be spelled as when it's pronounced as “-un”, “-wun” or “-yun”.
 * 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:
 * can only be pronounced katábhun, but can be either katábun or kátabun.
 * can be pronounced jarríbhun or jarríbun, and can be either jarríbun or járrbun.
 * In Lebanon, some speakers (typically older, rural speakers) realize this enclitic pronoun as hinne in some cases.
 * , can be pronounced as kīf(h)un or kīfhinne.

Etymology 1
Partially borrowed from an pronoun cognate to 🇨🇬. Compare with 🇨🇬.

The lack of a second, unlike the Aramaic, is due to influence from the form of and analogy with the final vowels of other third-person pronouns: , , and possibly the aforementioned.

The spelling is in direct association with Standard, while the alternative spellings follow the word's pronunciation.

Pronoun

 * 1)  they
 * Enclitic form:
 * Enclitic form:

Etymology 2
From or.

Suffix

 * 1)  they, them, their
 * 1)  they, them, their