"أَرْوى جَوْعانة."

Translation: Arwa is hungry.

[tsuj1g1r1]

It's pronounced "jaw3aana(t-un)," not "jaw3aan," which is the masculine form.

[haidarahhusain]

Jaw3aan(un) is masculine, jaw3aanah (jaw3aanatun) is feminine.

You heard jaw3aana, then it's feminine.

[KamranWali]

What is the actual pronounciation? Is it jaw3aanah or jaw3aanatun? Also what is the difference?

[Sabaaalb]

باللغة العربية لا تنطق جوعانة بل جائعة وللذكر جائع
Jaaie3ah
Jaaie3

[suhil078]

جوعانة تنطق بالهاء حال الوقف عليها، وصاحبة الصوت لم تنطقها، وهذا خطأ.

[Nadjia394880]

The spelling of first name is different un each country (especiallly when translated

[7awliet]

All of Level 4 in 'You and Me' is a complete write off. How does ى = a/aa ? It's changed everything learnt before it. ى = y/ii and أ/ا = a/aa.

[tsuj1g1r1]

Most Arabs nowadays differentiate ي and ى by drawing two little dots under the former, as you can see. In certain places word-finally, the "aa" sound is spelt with a ى, mostly in long words and words whose triliteral root has a non-initial Y in it, which gets replaced by that "aa" sound in most variants of the word. There are even a couple of patterns that incorporate it into their template. There are many words where replacing it with ي changes the meaning, like these:

عَلِيٌّ = Ali

عَلَى = on

مُنَى = Mona, wish

مِنِّي = from me

ضَحَّى = he sacrificed

ضَحِّي = Sacrifice! (An order addressed to a grammatical feminine)

كِسْرَى = Khosrow

كَسْرِيٌّ = fractional

[soybean18]

Do ا and ى have the same pronunciation?

[tsuj1g1r1]

In MSA, yes.

[muhammad_me]

In Egyptian?

[KatieC993112]

In Levant?

[VlandroV]

I wanna know this too

[Khamiis1]

In all of them

[KatieC993112]

There must be a history to ا and ى . It doesn't make sense to have two different letters for the identical sound. Does anyone know it?

[tsuj1g1r1]

Well, as I said, the ى represents an -aa sound that originally comes from an -ii sound that Arabic grammar rules prevent from being pronounced as an -ii. In Classical Arabic, many dialects, like those of Najd and Tamim, maintained a difference in pronunciation between these two, with ى being pronounced /ɛ/ or even /e/. Some Quranic readings maintain this pronunciation.

[KatieC993112]

Thank you, tsuj1g1r1.