ي

Usage notes

 * After kasra it is pronounced as a long ī or y  after fatḥa, ḍamma and before other vowels.
 * In the final position alif maqṣūra ألف مقصورَة "restricted alif" is always written without dots (). alif maqṣūra always follows a fatḥa and is transliterated as ā; see for its pronunciation. It is also called alif layyina (ألف لينَة) "flexible alif"
 * The traditional usage remains in Egypt and Sudan, for which the final yāʾ is written without dots and is visually identical to alif maqṣūra.

Suffix

 * 1)  me, my

Usage notes
has four enclitic forms which are employed in different contexts and are generally not interchangeable. The enclitic forms and  are attached to prepositions ending in  with no final vowel (e.g.,  and ) and to verbs. They may also be added to the class of particles traditionally called "the sisters of " (except ).

The forms and  are used elsewhere mostly interchangeably, though restrictions in metrical poetry often determine which variant is used. All short case endings before the suffix are elided (that is, those of the singular, the broken plural, and the so-called sound feminine plural), as in, , and.

In cases where would be preceded by a long vowel, as when suffixing sound masculine plural nouns, only  is used. If the word ends in a long close vowel (that is, -ū or -ī), the long close vowel assimilates to /i/ and the suffix is geminated, thus producing, as in (from  or ) and  (from  or from  or ). Therefore, when suffixed, such nouns, like nouns with short endings, are described as indeclinable in traditional Arabic grammar. However, the last long vowel is retained if it is open (that is, -ā), as in (from . If the word ends in the diphthong -aj,  is used, /j/ is elided, and the suffix is geminated, as in  (from. Thus, suffixed dual nouns are distinguishable in case, unlike all the other forms.

Etymology 3
Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Usage notes
See يا for details.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-ninth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter И, Й or sometimes ий, ый.

Usage notes

 * Represents the back vowel dipthong /əj/, unless a small ٴ|ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted.
 * The letter ي cannot act as a vowel in the beginning of a word or when it is written proceeding another vowel. When ي is unable to make a vowel sound, it becomes the consonant sound /j/.

Letter

 * 1) The forty-first letter of the Pashto alphabet. At the end of a verb, it indicates the verb is in third person plural present form. At the end of nouns and adjectives it indicates that the word is masculine in the singular oblique case or plural direct case. It also used in the non-declining adjective class.

Etymology 1
From.

Suffix

 * 1) I, me, my
 * 1) I, me, my

Usage notes

 * This form is only used attached to nouns, prepositions and conjunctions. After verbs, the form is used instead.

Etymology 2
From.

Letter

 * 1) The thirty-second and final letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-fifth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script .