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Definition of Hamza
1. Noun. A sign ((Arab ?)(LR) - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly over or under other letters, e.g. (Arab ??)(LR) (over an alif - (Arab ?)(LR)), (Arab ??)(LR) (under an alif), (Arab ???)(LR) (over a w?w - (Arab ?)(LR)) or (Arab ????)(LR) (over a dotless y?? - (Arab ?)(LR)). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule". ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hamza
1. an Arabic diacritical mark [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamza
Literary usage of Hamza
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Arabic Manual by John Gulian Lansing (1886)
"hamza accompanies the vowel of alif when alif begins a syllable.3 When alif is
a radical, hamza is sometimes found written over it without a vowel. ..."
2. A Grammar of the Persian Language: To which is Added, a Selection of Easy by Duncan Forbes (1844)
"The sound of the mark hamza, according to the Arabian Grammarians, ... According to
the strict rule, the hamza ought to be used whenever a syllable, ..."
3. An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton (1759)
"... to Mecca, he detached his uncle hamza, at the head not ... who believes this
attempt of hamza to have been made in the ..."
4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"But the battle qf Ohud, which happened towards the end of this year, had like to
have proved fatal to him: for his uncle hamza, who bore the ..."
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