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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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Yeang is a principal in the Kuala Lumpur-based firm TR Hamzah & Yeang as well as a Director of the London-based Llewelyn Davies Yeang.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The Mysticism of Hamzah Fansitri (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1970), 190, 190 n.
Just days before the divisive and bitterly fought 1990 general election, the UMNO-controlled Utusan Malaysia carried on its front page a photograph of the opposition leader and former UMNO vice president Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah wearing a native Sabahan headdress that happened to have a cross on it.
 
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