Quran glossary · draft

هيه

feminine singular anaphor

An independent third-person feminine singular pronoun that retrieves a salient feminine singular discourse referent.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Forms: هِيَهْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

101:10

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ

Where other meanings fail

fire

101:10

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ

Alternative: what is fire—a scorching fire

Research rendering: what is it—a scorching fire

The following clause answers the identity question; lexicalizing that answer inside the pronoun destroys the anaphoric question-answer relation.