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hamza

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ham·za also ham·zah  (hmz, hämzä)
n.
A sign in Arabic orthography used to represent the sound of a glottal stop, transliterated in English as an apostrophe.

[Arabic, from hamaza, to urge on, goad; see hmz in Semitic roots.]

hamza, hamzah [ˈhɑːmzɑː -zə]
n
(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) the sign used in Arabic to represent the glottal stop
[from Arabic hamzah, literally: a compression]


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