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.

Habiibtii

حَبيبتي my love (fem.)

Check the colloquial (Egyptian) pronunciation here

 

Possessive pronouns

In Arabic, possessive pronouns (like "my") are attached to the end of the word. To say "my love" you just attach the letter ي to the word حَبيب (love, beloved) = حَبيبي

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      • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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        5 hours ago

        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.

        • awth13 [fae/faer, comrade/them]
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          4 hours ago

          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.

    • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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      6 hours ago

      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?