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The h in Hiba is pronounced as in English, a voiceless glottal fricative:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative

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The h in Farah is not silent, but pronounced with a sound inexistent in English (voiceless pharyngeal fricative):

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative

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(you have sound sample).

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It is possible that in some Arabic dialects the sounds can be something different.

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Here you have the equivalences of the Arabic letters and the sounds (in IPA):

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet

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Attention: the equivalences are valid for Arabic language, but can not be correct for other languages using the Arabic alphabet.

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