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hamza
[ hahm-zah ]
/ ˈhɑm zɑ /
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noun
the sign used in Arabic writing to represent the glottal stop, usually written above another letter and shown in English transliterations as an apostrophe.
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Origin of hamza
First recorded in 1935–40, hamza is from the Arabic word ḥamzah literally, a squeezing together
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hamza
hamzah
/ (ˈhɑːmzɑː, -zə) /
noun
the sign used in Arabic to represent the glottal stop
Word Origin for hamza
from Arabic hamzah, literally: a compression
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