Homographs (4 distinct entries for “ی”):
Entry #1 of 4 · Noun (Feminine)
ی — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition
ye
Pronunciation:Standard: /ye/
Noun (Feminine)Verified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه
ی (ye) is a Pashto n-f meaning “the fortieth letter of the Pashto alphabet; number 10 in the abjad system; it is pronounced as the vowel phoneme /y/ before and after other vowels; it also represents the vowel phonemes /i/, /e/ and /ay/” in English او په اردو کې د «حرف، اکشر، پشتو» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards.
Meanings · Entry 11
ماناوې او تعریفونه1
the fortieth letter of the Pashto alphabet; number 10 in the abjad system; it is pronounced as the vowel phoneme /y/ before and after other vowels; it also represents the vowel phonemes /i/, /e/ and /ay/
حرف، اکشر، پشتو
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Proverbs (Mataloona)1 unique
ولسي متلونهولسي متل (Proverb)
«اوبو اخیست ئ و خاشې ته لاس اچوی»
“A drowning man will grasp even at a straw”
Grammar — Word forms
د کلمې ګردان او بڼېExamples from corpora2
قاموسي او ادبي شواهدAttested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.
Dunwoody Press (Zeeya A. Pashtoon)
یګ ستر
“of an eye”
Dunwoody Press (Zeeya A. Pashtoon)
دوی چېری وې؟
“Where were they”
د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)کتل ▼
پښتوی
Entry #2 of 4 · character
ي (character · Entry 2)
ي
Pronunciation:Standard: /ي/
characterVerified sense 1
Meanings · Entry 21
ماناوې او تعریفونه1
The forty-first letter of the Pashto alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ۀ and followed by ې.[wiktionary]
حرف، اکشر، پشتو
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Entry #3 of 4 · suffix
ـي (suffix · Entry 3)
ـي
Pronunciation:Standard: /ـي/
suffixplural: ـيونهVerified sense 1
Meanings · Entry 31
ماناوې او تعریفونه1
a suffix added to nouns to form abstract nouns: -ship, -ity, -tion[wiktionary]
لاحق، سنسکار، وضع
Example in context:
یګ ستر
“of an eye”
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Entry #4 of 4 · n. f.
يْ (n. f. · Entry 4)
tawdūḵẖaʿh
Pronunciation:Standard: /tawdūḵẖaʿh/
n. f.Feminineplural: تودOrigin: Arabic → PashtoVerified sense 1
Meanings · Entry 47
ماناوې او تعریفونه1
Heat, warmth, fervour, glow, temperature, closeness, sultriness[classical]
[کلاسيک / تاريخي]
Page 268 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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[Classical] The hā-i-ḵẖafī is also prefixed to all masculine nouns terminating in any other letter than ي (with the exception of some nouns terminating in yā-i-moḳūf or silent ي ) in the formation of their feminines; as اوښ ūś̱ẖ or ūḵ́ẖ , A male camel; اوښه ūś̱ẖaʿh or ūḵ́ẖaʿh , A female camel. سوي so-e , A hare; سویه so-eaʿh , The female. لوي lo-e , Great (male); لویه lo-eaʿh , Great (female). In the uninflected nominative plural the ه is changed to يْ .[classical]
Page 1052 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Turkic
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[Classical] ي yā , called ياي حطي yā-i ḥut̤t̤ī or یاي تحتاتي yā-i taḥ-tānī , The twenty-eighth letter of the Arabic and thirty-second of the Persian, is the fortieth and last letter of the Puś̱ẖto alphabet. It corresponds to Sanskrit य ; and when appropriated to denote a number, it stands for 10.[classical]
Page 1077 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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[Classical] 1. Yā-i taḥ-tānī mā-ḳabl-i-maf-tūḥ , i.e. ي with ( ــــ ) fat-ḥaʿh preceding it, being a compound of fat-ḥaʿh and yā quiescent, is used as the singular termination of a number of nouns, and by which their gender may be known. In the plural it is changed into yā-i-maœ-rūf or ي preceded by ( ـــِـ ) kasraʿh ; as سړيَ saṟṟaey , A man; سړيِ saṟṟī , Men. These letters and combinations are also used for the Puś̱ẖto masculine yā-i-nisbat , to express relation or connection; as قندهار ḳanda-hār , The city of Ḳandahār; قندهاريَ ḳanda-hāraey , A man or male of Ḳandahār; قندهاريِ ḳanda-hārī , Men of Kandahār, etc.[classical]
Page 1078 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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[Classical] 3. Yā-i-maœ-rūf mā-ḳabl-i-hamzaʿh-i-ḵẖafī-i-maksūr, i.e. ي with ( ــُِــ ) preceding it, ئِي aʿī , is the termination of a number of feminine nouns, which are both singular and plural; as جینئِي jīnaʿī , A girl or girls. This termination is also used as the yā-i-nisbat for the feminine gender, to denote relation or connection; as قندهارئِي ḳanda-hāraʿī , A female or females of Ḳandahār.[classical]
Page 1078 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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[Classical] 4. The letter ي is used as the affixed personal pronouns of the second person, as in the Semitic, Persian, and Sindīān languages; thus, yā-i-maj-hūl denotes or stands for the termination of the second person singular; as, آخليْ āḵẖal-ey , Thou takest, and is changed in the plural to hamzaʿh-i-malaiyinah-i-mak- sūr wo yā-i-taḥ-tānī-i-maœ-rūf , i.e., softened hamzaʿh and ي with kasraʿh ( ــِـ ); as, آخلئِي āḵẖal-aʿaī , You take. This is often written by way of distinction by some of the oldest authors with ( ــْــ ) jazmaʿh over ي , but I have generally adopted the former as being the more correct method. The Western Afg̠ẖāns, however, do not usually make any difference between the pronunciation of this termination and that of the third person singular and plural hereafter noticed.[classical]
Page 1078 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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[Classical] As in Arabic, ي is like ا and و , is one of the ḥurūf i-œillat , or weak letters; and is, like the English y , sometimes a consonant and sometimes a vowel.[classical]
Page 1080 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Arabic
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Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes
علمي او ژبني معلوماتGrammar & Morphological Classification
The headword ی (ye) functions as a n-f in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.
Phonological & Dialectal Realization
Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.
Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition
Nearby words
نږدې او ورته لغتونهAlphabetical order: