I hate my husband

Habiibii, Hayaati, and Hayawaan all start with the letter ح, the sound does not exist in English.

With your mouth open, make a raspy, breathy sound as if you're breathing on glass to fog it up. You wanna constrict the muscles inside your throat so that air can just barely squeeze through.

Your vocal cords should not vibrate.

We transliterate ح as a capital H, so as not to be confused with the h sound in English.

Transliteration	Eng	عَرَبي
Habiibii	my love (masc.)	حَبيبي
Hayaatii	my life	حَياتي
ruHii	my soul	روحي
Hayawaan	animal (masc.)	حَيوان

Imagine you just swallowed a spoonful of very hot chili. And yes when ح is the initial letter it looks like this حـ, so that we can connect the following letter to it. Remember, Arabic is written from Right to Left.

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Is ح sounded like a ח in hebrew?
- Well, it seems they share the same Semitic origin, but I think the answer to your question is probably no. I don't know any Hebrew, but I know that Hebrew speakers have a hard time pronouncing ح .
  @infuziSporg@hexbear.net iirc, you know (some) Hebrew?
  
  lol no, maybe like 50 morphemes.
- No, more like ה.
  The difference between ה and ח is similar to the difference between ح and خ.
  
  It sounds like ه in Arabic, not ح.
  I found this in a reddit comment:
  /ħ/ ח - ح.
  In modern Hebrew most of the people pronounce the ח as /χ/, but still there are many people pronouncing it in the original way.
  
  Obviously depends on where you are from but Hebrew speakers I know will pronounce ה like this (h) and ח like this (χ). The difference between these two sounds is similar (I’ve chosen this word carefully to avoid claiming it is the same) to the difference between ح and خ. There is no equivalent to the actual ح sound in Hebrew as far as I know.
  
  Yeah I thought you meant they had the same sound.
  
  I hope I didn’t confuse anyone, thank you for clarifying (and the lessons) ❤️

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