ى

• Also the final or isolated form of ي in the Nile Valley, when typed on electronic devices, which looks similar in shape to the Persian ی in its final or isolated form.

ى • (-ā)

1. Only written in the final position, transliterated ā. Also called أَلِف لَيِّنَة (ʔalif layyina, “flexible alif”). In the rare case of a rasm version of Quran, it is the yāʾ version.
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:30:

     قَالَ إِنِّی عَبۡدُ ٱللَّهِ ءَاتَىٰنِیَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَجَعَلَنِی نَبِیࣰّا

     Jesus declared, “I am truly a servant of Allah. He has destined me to be given the Scripture and to be a prophet.

From Proto-Semitic *-ay-.

ـَى or ـَا • (-ā or -ā)

1. Used to form feminine adjectives.

   دُنْيَا (dunyā)

   قُصْوَى (quṣwā)

   مَلْأَى (malʔā)

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ja/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ə/ (back)
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɘ/, /i/ (front)

ى • (ı, i)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Ы or І.

• Represents the back vowel phoneme /ə/, unless a small ء (hamza) was placed in the beginning of the word. In Kazakh the Hamza marks that all vowels in the following word are fronted. If ى is the initial letter of a word and is representing a front vowel, it is combined with the hamza and the variant ٸ is used.

• ٸ (word-initial front-vowel varient)
• Previous letter: ۆ
• Next letter: ي
• (Arabic script letters) ا, ب, پ, ﺕ, ﺝ, ﭺ, ﺡ, ﺩ, ﺭ, ﺯ, ﺱ, ﺵ, ﻉ, ﻑ, ﻕ, ك, گ, ڭ, ﻝ, ﻡ, ﻥ, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي.

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [jə]
• (Phoneme, Opened ultima only) IPA^(key): [ə]

ى / ـى

1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

• (Arabic script letters) ا,‎ ب,‎ ت,‎ ة,‎ ث,‎ ج,‎ چ,‎ ح,‎ خ,‎ د,‎ ذ,‎ ر,‎ ز,‎ س,‎ ش,‎ ص,‎ ض,‎ ط,‎ ظ,‎ ع,‎ غ,‎ ڠ,‎ ف,‎ ڤ,‎ ق,‎ ک,‎ ݢ,‎ گ,‎ ل,‎ م,‎ ن,‎ و,‎ ۏ,‎ ه,‎ ہ,‎ ھ,‎ ء,‎ ي,‎ ى,‎ ی,‎ ے,‎ ڽ ^[edit]

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /i/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /i/, /ɪ/, /ɯ/

ى • (i)

1. The thirtieth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

• UYY - ULY: Ii
• USY: Ии

• Previous letter: ئې (ë)