lakeesha Hennessy Williams answered
The name Amy is written إيمي in Arabic. The individual letters used are:
The interesting thing about the Arabic language is that, even when you know how to write the individual letters that make up a word, their appearance may change depending on what order they appear.
This is a bit like cursive writing in English, where letters join up when they are in the body of a word, but can appear slightly-differently, depending on the letters around them.
The first letter of Amy is alif. This is an unusual letter because it never joins up with a succeeding letter. In the name Amy, it appears as a single stroke: ا .
The second letter, ي (yah), is also a bit of a strange character. It serves a dual purpose, and can be pronounced both as a 'y' (like the 'y' in beyond) or as an 'ee' (as in bee). In this case, it's more like a y-sound (/j/ phonetically).
When ي (yah) appears in an initial position (as it does here), it takes on this form: يـ
The third letter is م (meem). Its sound is far more straightforward, as it is always read like the letter 'm' in English. When it appears in the middle of a sentence, it loses its 'tail' and joins straight into the following letter.
The final letter is another ي (yah). However, this time, we see it being used in its second form - like the 'ee' in bee (/i:/ phonetically).
- ا (alif)
- ي (yah)
- م (meem)
- ي (yah)
The interesting thing about the Arabic language is that, even when you know how to write the individual letters that make up a word, their appearance may change depending on what order they appear.
This is a bit like cursive writing in English, where letters join up when they are in the body of a word, but can appear slightly-differently, depending on the letters around them.
The first letter of Amy is alif. This is an unusual letter because it never joins up with a succeeding letter. In the name Amy, it appears as a single stroke: ا .
The second letter, ي (yah), is also a bit of a strange character. It serves a dual purpose, and can be pronounced both as a 'y' (like the 'y' in beyond) or as an 'ee' (as in bee). In this case, it's more like a y-sound (/j/ phonetically).
When ي (yah) appears in an initial position (as it does here), it takes on this form: يـ
The third letter is م (meem). Its sound is far more straightforward, as it is always read like the letter 'm' in English. When it appears in the middle of a sentence, it loses its 'tail' and joins straight into the following letter.
The final letter is another ي (yah). However, this time, we see it being used in its second form - like the 'ee' in bee (/i:/ phonetically).
