| If a hamza comes from a qaf, as happens in Egypt, the Levant, and to a certain extent in Fez, Morocco, it does not elide. |
| The sign hamza also represents a glottal stop and is transliterated in the same way. |
| She sat down on the divan, and almost immediately hamza came in. |
| He came a little nearer to hamza, stood by the rail, and offered him a cigarette. |
| After the execution of Darazi and his collaborators, Hamza continued his preaching activities for two more years. |
| Historically, qaf merged with the hamza, except in some restricted domains mainly religious ones. |
