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ى

Root: ى

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ى The twenty-eighth letter of the alphabet: called يَآءٌ. It is one of the letters termed soft, or weak, and is a letter of prolongation and of augmentation. As a numeral it signifies Ten.

def.2 ى for يا frequently occurs in the phrase يَرَسُولَ ٱللّٰهِ, and in ...


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