name
Meaning 1
A male given name from Arabic.
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Standard Lemma guide
hamza
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name
Meaning 2
A male given name from Arabic.
The Muslim Sahabi Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Arabic.
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noun
Meaning 4
A sign used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter (ء (ʔ)) or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ (ʔ) (over an alif [ا]), إ (ʔ) (under an alif), ؤ (ʔ) (over a wāw [و]) or ئ (ʔ) (over a dotless yāʾ [ى]). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule – the "seat of hamza rule".
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History
Etymology
From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ m z).
Borrowed from Arabic هَمْزَة (hamza).
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هَمْزَة (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Armenian: համզա (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Azerbaijani: həmzə — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Belarusian: га́мза (hámza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Catalan: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Chinese Mandarin: 哈姆扎 (hāmǔzhā) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Chinese Mandarin: 海姆宰 (hǎimǔzǎi) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Finnish: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- French: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Georgian: ჰამზა (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- German: Hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- German: Hamsa — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Greek: χάμζα (chámza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Hindi: हमज़ा (hamzā) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Indonesian: hamzah — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Italian: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Japanese: ハムザ (hamuza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Kazakh: һамза (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Korean: 함자 (hamja) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Central Kurdish: ھەمزە (hemze) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Northern Kurdish: hemze — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Malay: hamzah — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Pashto: همزه (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Persian: هَمْزِه (hamze) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Polish: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Russian: ха́мза (xámza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Serbo-Croatian: ха̀мза — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Serbo-Croatian: hàmza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Slovak: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Southern Altai: хамза (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Spanish: jamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Tajik: ҳамза (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Tatar: һәмзә (hämzä) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Thai: ฮัมซะฮ์ — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Turkish: hemze — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Ottoman Turkish: همزه (hemze) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Ukrainian: га́мза (hámza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Urdu: ہَمْزَہ (hamza) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Uyghur: ھەمزە (hemze) — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
- Uzbek: hamza — Arabic sign representing a glottal stop
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