20.6 When the hamzah appears with a vowel of its own after ya ̄
withsuku ̄n (^) ...ـ ْ يـ... /...y.../, the bearer of the hamzah is ya ̄
without dots
...ـئـ..., e.g.
(The preceding ya ̄
with suku ̄n (^) ...ـ ْ يـ... is stronger than the fath
̇
ah of
the hamzah and therefore the bearer of the hamzah is ...ـ َ ئـ... /y/
without dots.)
20.7 When the hamzah appears with fath
̇
ah between one of the long
vowels ـا
ِ
... /a ̄/ or ُـو ... /u ̄/ and ta ̄
marbu ̄t
̇
ah (^) ة , ..ـة, the hamzah
will stand alone without a bearer:
BUT: If the hamzah appears with fath
̇
ah between the long vowel
...ـيـ ِ ... /ı ̄/ and ta ̄
marbu ̄t
̇
ah (^) ة, ..ـة, the bearer of the hamzah is ...ـ َ ئـ...
/y/, e.g. َخ ِطي َئ ٌة h
̆
at
̇
ı ̄
atun ‘sin’.
20.8 When the hamzah in the middle of a word is preceded by
alif (^) ا,
the bearer of the hamzah is the related letter of its own vowel. However,
if the vowel of the hamzah is fath
̇
ah, the hamzah remains without a
bearer:
(b)َل ُؤ َم la
uma, he was wicked ُس َؤا ٌل su
a ̄lun, question
(The d
̇
ammah of the hamzah is (The preceding d
̇
ammah is
stronger than the preceding
fath
̇
ah.)
stronger than the fath
̇
ah of the
hamzah).
(c)َس َأ َل sa
ala, he asked
(Here the bearer of the hamzah is
alif (^) أ, because both its own vowel
and the preceding vowel are fath
̇
ahs.)
َه ْي َئ ٌة hay
atun, organization َش ْي َئا ِن sˇay
a ̄ni, two things
(a) alone after
alif: اء /...a ̄
.../, e.g. ِق َرا َء ٌة qira ̄
atun, reading
(b) alone after wa ̄w: وء /...u ̄
.../, e.g. ُم ُرو َء ٌة muru ̄
atun, valour
Nominative Accusative Genitive
َأ ْص ِد َقا ُؤ ُه َأ ْص ِد َقا َء ُه َأ ْص ِد َقا ِئ ِه
as
̇
diqa ̄
u-hu, his friends
as
̇
diqa ̄
a-hu
as
̇
diqa ̄
i-hi
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Rules for
writing the
hamzah
(hamzatu
l-qat
̇
i)