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hamzah

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ham·za also ham·zah   (hām'zə, häm'zä)   
n.  A sign in Arabic orthography used to represent the sound of a glottal stop, transliterated in English as an apostrophe.

[Arabic, from hamaza, to urge on, goad; see hmz in Semitic roots.]
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