ham·za also ham·zah (h m z , 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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