hamza

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A sign ( - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g.  (over an alif - ),  (under an alif),  (over a wāw - ) or  (over a dotless yāʾ - ). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule".

Usage notes

 * Sometimes transliterated as an apostrophe.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: համզա
 * Azerbaijani: həmzə
 * Belarusian:
 * Catalan: hamza
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 哈姆扎, 海姆宰
 * Finnish: hamza
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჰამზა
 * German: Hamza, Hamsa
 * Greek: χάμζα
 * Hindi: हमज़ा
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: hamza
 * Japanese: ハムザ
 * Kazakh: һамза
 * Korean: 함자
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەمزە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Malay: hamzah
 * Pashto: همزه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ха̀мза
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hamza
 * Spanish: jamza
 * Tajik: ҳамза
 * Tatar: һәмзә
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: hemze
 * Ukrainian: га́мза
 * Urdu: ہَمْزَہ
 * Uyghur: ھەمزە
 * Uzbek:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) the Arabic letter ء