HAMZA


Meaning of HAMZA in English

n.

Variant: or ham · zah

Pronunciation: ' ham-z ə , ' häm-

Function: noun

Etymology: Arabic hamza, literally, compression

Date: 1813

: the sign for a glottal stop in Arabic orthography usually represented in English by an apostrophe

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