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hā(called hā`e-hawwaz, 'hof the word hawwaz,' or hā`e-mudawwara, 'the round h'), is the thirty-fourth letter of the Urdū alphabet (the thirty-first of the Persian and the twentyseventh of the Arabic alphabet), and corresponds to ह ha, the thirty-third consonant of the Hindīor DevaNāgarī alphabet.. It is one of the guttural letters, having the sound of the English h.When used to denote a number, it stands for five; and in almanacs it may represent Thursday, or the zodiacal sign Virgo:—hā`e-jalī, or hā`e-z̤āhir, or hā`emalfūz̤ī, The perceptible h (at the end of a word, as hin bādshāh):—hā`e-mukhtafī, or hā`emaktūbī, The imperceptible h (at the end of a word, as in بہانہ bahāna):—ha-kār, s.m. The letter or sound ha.