"هی" meaning in Persian

See هی in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [hej] [Iran, formal] Forms: hey [romanization]
Etymology: Perhaps from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sádaH (“always”). Compare Sanskrit सदा (sadā, “always”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀 (haδa, “always”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fa|iir-pro|*sádaH|t=always}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *sádaH (“always”), {{cog|sa|सदा|t=always}} Sanskrit सदा (sadā, “always”), {{cog|ae|𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀|t=always}} Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀 (haδa, “always”) Head templates: {{head|fa|adverb|tr=hey}} هی • (hey), {{tlb|fa|colloquial|chiefly|Iran}} (colloquial, chiefly Iran)
  1. repeatedly, continuously, always; keep... Tags: Iran, colloquial Synonyms: مرتب
    Sense id: en-هی-fa-adv-Nr04wIEB Categories (other): Iranian Persian
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Interjection

IPA: [häj] [Dari, formal], [heː] [Dari, formal], [häj] [Dari, formal], [heː] [Dari, formal], [ʔäj] [Kabuli], [ʔeː] [Kabuli], [ʔäj] (note: Hazaragi), [ʔeː] (note: Hazaragi), [hej] [Iran, formal] Forms: hey [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from English hey Etymology templates: {{bor+|fa|en|hey}} Borrowed from English hey Head templates: {{head|fa|interjection|tr=hey}} هی • (hey)
  1. hey, hi Tags: Iran, colloquial
    Sense id: en-هی-fa-intj-eWMCIlTg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: [heː] [Classical-Persian], [heː] [Dari, formal], [heː] [Dari, formal], [ʔeː] [Kabuli], [ʔeː] (note: Hazaragi) Forms: hē [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala Etymology templates: {{bor+|fa|ar|هاء}} Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) Head templates: {{head|fa|noun|tr=hē}} هی • (hē), {{tlb|fa|Classical|Dari}} (Classical Persian, Dari)
  1. Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه. Tags: Classical-Persian, Dari, Iran, colloquial
    Sense id: en-هی-fa-noun-uzoCC0X4 Categories (other): Classical Persian, Pages with entries, Dari, Persian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Classical Persian: 21 0 1 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 0 1 47 Disambiguation of Dari: 0 9 91 Disambiguation of Persian entries with incorrect language header: 0 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3
{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "iir-pro",
        "3": "*sádaH",
        "t": "always"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian *sádaH (“always”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "सदा",
        "t": "always"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit सदा (sadā, “always”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
        "2": "𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀",
        "t": "always"
      },
      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀 (haδa, “always”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sádaH (“always”). Compare Sanskrit सदा (sadā, “always”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀 (haδa, “always”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hey",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "adverb",
        "tr": "hey"
      },
      "expansion": "هی • (hey)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "colloquial",
        "3": "chiefly",
        "4": "Iran"
      },
      "expansion": "(colloquial, chiefly Iran)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Iranian Persian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He kept saying \"no problem.\"",
          "roman": "u hey mi-goft moškeli nist.",
          "text": "او هی میگفت مشکلی نیست.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              21,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              11,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "His mom and the rest kept calling on the phone.",
          "roman": "mâdar-eš inâ hey zang zadan.",
          "text": "مادرش اینا هی زنگ زدن.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "repeatedly, continuously, always; keep..."
      ],
      "id": "en-هی-fa-adv-Nr04wIEB",
      "links": [
        [
          "repeatedly",
          "repeatedly"
        ],
        [
          "continuously",
          "continuously"
        ],
        [
          "always",
          "always"
        ],
        [
          "keep",
          "keep"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "مرتب"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[hej]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "هی"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "hey"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English hey",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English hey",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hey",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "interjection",
        "tr": "hey"
      },
      "expansion": "هی • (hey)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "hey!",
          "roman": "hey",
          "text": "هی!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hey, hi"
      ],
      "id": "en-هی-fa-intj-eWMCIlTg",
      "links": [
        [
          "hey",
          "hey"
        ],
        [
          "hi",
          "hi"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[häj]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[häj]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔäj]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔäj]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[hej]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "هی"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "هاء"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hē",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "noun",
        "tr": "hē"
      },
      "expansion": "هی • (hē)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "Classical",
        "3": "Dari"
      },
      "expansion": "(Classical Persian, Dari)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 0 1 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Persian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 0 1 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dari",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه."
      ],
      "id": "en-هی-fa-noun-uzoCC0X4",
      "links": [
        [
          "ه",
          "ه#Persian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian",
        "Dari",
        "Iran",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "هی"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Classical Persian",
    "Dari",
    "Iranian Persian",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Persian adverbs",
    "Persian colloquialisms",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian nouns",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Arabic",
    "Persian terms derived from Arabic",
    "Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
    "Persian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "iir-pro",
        "3": "*sádaH",
        "t": "always"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian *sádaH (“always”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "सदा",
        "t": "always"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit सदा (sadā, “always”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ae",
        "2": "𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀",
        "t": "always"
      },
      "expansion": "Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀 (haδa, “always”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sádaH (“always”). Compare Sanskrit सदा (sadā, “always”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬜𐬀 (haδa, “always”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hey",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "adverb",
        "tr": "hey"
      },
      "expansion": "هی • (hey)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "colloquial",
        "3": "chiefly",
        "4": "Iran"
      },
      "expansion": "(colloquial, chiefly Iran)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He kept saying \"no problem.\"",
          "roman": "u hey mi-goft moškeli nist.",
          "text": "او هی میگفت مشکلی نیست.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              21,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              11,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "His mom and the rest kept calling on the phone.",
          "roman": "mâdar-eš inâ hey zang zadan.",
          "text": "مادرش اینا هی زنگ زدن.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "repeatedly, continuously, always; keep..."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "repeatedly",
          "repeatedly"
        ],
        [
          "continuously",
          "continuously"
        ],
        [
          "always",
          "always"
        ],
        [
          "keep",
          "keep"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "مرتب"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[hej]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "هی"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Classical Persian",
    "Dari",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian interjections",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian nouns",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Arabic",
    "Persian terms borrowed from English",
    "Persian terms derived from Arabic",
    "Persian terms derived from English",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "hey"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English hey",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English hey",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hey",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "interjection",
        "tr": "hey"
      },
      "expansion": "هی • (hey)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "hey!",
          "roman": "hey",
          "text": "هی!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hey, hi"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hey",
          "hey"
        ],
        [
          "hi",
          "hi"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[häj]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[häj]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔäj]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔäj]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[hej]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "هی"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Classical Persian",
    "Dari",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian nouns",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Arabic",
    "Persian terms derived from Arabic",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "هاء"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic هاء (hāʔ) with vowel shift due to imala",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hē",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "noun",
        "tr": "hē"
      },
      "expansion": "هی • (hē)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "Classical",
        "3": "Dari"
      },
      "expansion": "(Classical Persian, Dari)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Name of the thirty-first letter of the Persian alphabet ه."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ه",
          "ه#Persian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian",
        "Dari",
        "Iran",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[heː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ʔeː]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "هی"
}

Download raw JSONL data for هی meaning in Persian (5.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Persian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (887c61b and 3d4dee6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.