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އެ • (e)
- The seventh vowel of the Thaana alphabet, named ebebili
From Sanskrit अयम् (ayam). Cognate with Sinhalese ඒ (ē).
އެ • (e)
- it, that; that over there
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “އެ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 64