حَآءٌ
Root: حوأ
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حَآءٌ
The name of the letter
ح, q. v.; as also حَا: (S and K and TA in باب الالف اللّينة:) it is called حا in a case of pause, and حَآءٌ when made a noun: and when it is not called a letter, [i. e. when one does not prefix to it the word حَرْف,] it is [properly] fem.: its dim. is حُيَيَّةٌ, meaning a
ح
written small, or indistinct: and its pl. is أَحْوَآءٌ and أَحْيَآءٌ and حَاآتٌ.
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