hamza
[ hahm-zah ]
/ ˈhɑm zɑ /
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.
Origin of hamza
First recorded in 1935–40,
hamza is from the Arabic word
ḥamzah literally, a squeezing together
Words nearby hamza
hamstring muscle,
hamsun,
hamtramck,
hamular,
hamulus,
hamza,
han,
han fei zu,
han fei-tzu,
han shui,
han wu ti
Example sentences from the Web for hamza
British Dictionary definitions for hamza
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