ah
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɑː/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
Interjection
[edit]ah
- An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.
- Ah, I understand now.
- Ah! It's good to be back home!
- Ah, the flowers of spring.
- A syllable used to fill space, particularly in music.
- 2008, Britney Spears (lyrics and music), “Womanizer”:
- Boy don't try to front, uh, I
Know just, just, what you are, ah, ah.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
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Noun
[edit]ah (plural ahs)
- An instance of the interjection ah.
- the crowd's oohs and ahs at the fireworks
Verb
[edit]ah (third-person singular simple present ahs, present participle ahing, simple past and past participle ahed)
- To give a cry of "ah".
- 2005, T. R. Rhoads, Sinner, Sailor: A Memoir, page 221:
- Mother and dad oohed and ahed over Cindy. She was only two months old but already was developing her personality.
Pronoun
[edit]ah (personal pronoun, plural we, possessive adjective mah)
- Pronunciation spelling of I, most often indicating that the speaker is using a Scottish or American (particularly Southern) accent.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Hokkien 啊 (--a), Teochew 啊 (a7), Mandarin 啊 (a).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]- Marks a tag question prompting the listener to clarify something.
- You're dyslexic ah? ― So you're dyslexic?
- 2020 April 12, Notdumb, “Liddat is safe distance ah?”, in SG Talk[1], archived from the original on 18 April 2020:
- Only 2 ft apart considered safe ah?
- Used for emphasis; reinforces a short wh-question.
- 2011 October 23, Rachel Chang, “LifeStyle”, in The Sunday Times, page 15:
- See how lor. Who’s going ar?
- Emphasizes the need for absolute confirmation or acknowledgment.
- Don't drink and drive ah...
- 2010 April 18, Colin Goh, “LifeStyle”, in The Sunday Times, page 24:
- Sure, ah? Thanks, man, pai seh.
- A filler word separating the topic of a sentence and its comment.
- The drilling upstairs ah, non-stop leh.
- A filler word used to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “ah”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “ah”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Lim, L. (2004) Singapore English: A grammatical description[2], John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 121
Anagrams
[edit]Afar
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]áh
Declension
[edit]Declension of áh | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | áh | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | áha | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | áh | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | ahtí | |||||||||||||||||
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ah”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *aksa, from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- (“ash”) (compare Greek οξιά (oxiá, “beech”), Armenian հածի (haci), English ash).
Noun
[edit]ah m (plural ahe, definite ahu, definite plural ahet)
Hyponyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ah”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][4] (in Albanian), 1980
- “ah”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Chickasaw
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adverb
[edit]ah
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Partly borrowed from German, English, French, from Latin ah (“ah”), from Proto-Indo-European *ā. Partly also onomatopoeic.
Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål ah, English ah, German ah, French ah and Latin ah.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
- used to express pleasure, e.g. because something tastes good or feels nice
- Coordinate terms: mm, mums, namnam
- ah, sikken en dejlig pandekage
- ah what a delicious pancake
- Synonym: uhm
- used to express pleasant surprise
- "ah, velkommen Albert," sagde Sickert til prinsen
- "ah, welcome Albert," said Sickert to the prince
- Synonym: minsandten
- used to express reservations, slight disagreement, doubt etc.
- bliver man også nervøs? Ah ikke så meget
- do you get nervous too? Ah, not so much
- Synonym: arh
References
[edit]- “ah” in Den Danske Ordbog
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Interjection
[edit]ah
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Found in a wide variety of languages, including but not limited to Estonian ah, Ingrian ah, Karelian ah, Ludian ah, Veps ah, Votic ah, Hungarian ah, Swedish ah, German ah, English ah, Latin ah. Tracing an exact origin is effectively impossible. Probably ultimately involuntary or natural.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
Further reading
[edit]- “ah”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French a! (“oh! ah! woe!”), of expressive origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “ah”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “ah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
- ah (expression of understanding, etc.)
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ah”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ah”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ah”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aː
Interjection
[edit]ah
- expressing understanding
- expressing contentment
Further reading
[edit]Hokkien
[edit]For pronunciation and definitions of ah – see 鴨 (“duck”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 鴨). |
For pronunciation and definitions of ah – see 矣 (“particle expressing completion”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 矣). |
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Involuntary expression of emotions: surprise, impatience, desire, sadness, refusal.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
- ah
- 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 1 [6]
- 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 1 [6]
References
[edit]- ^ ah in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- ah in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- ah in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
- oh, expresses compassion, surprise and dismay
Further reading
[edit]- “ah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Ingrian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately a natural sound. Compare Finnish ah and Estonian ah.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
References
[edit]- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 3
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈa/, which may be preceded and/or followed by [h] or [ʔ]. It also may trigger syntactic gemination.[1]
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: ah
Interjection
[edit]ah
References
[edit]- ^ ah in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
[edit]Juǀ'hoan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ah (upper case Ah)
- A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ā or perhaps *h₂eh₂.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aːh/, [äː(ɦ)]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a/, [ä]
Interjection
[edit]āh
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2011) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 250
Further reading
[edit]- “ah”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ah”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Mokilese
[edit]Noun
[edit]ah
- (one's) thing
Usage notes
[edit]Like many terms in Mokilese, ah has no non-possessive form; the third person singular possessive form (one's/his/her/its thing) is therefore treated as the lemma.
Declension
[edit]singular possessor | first person | oai | |
---|---|---|---|
second person | oamw | ||
third person | ah | ||
dual possessors | first person inclusive | asa | |
first person exclusive | ama | ||
second person | amwa | ||
third person | ara | ||
plural possessors | first person inclusive | asai | |
first person exclusive | amai | ||
second person | amwai | ||
third person | arai | ||
remote plural possessors | first person inclusive | ahs | |
first person exclusive | imi | ||
second person | imwi | ||
third person | ahr | ||
construct form | in |
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]ah
Palikur
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]ah n or f
References
[edit]- Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN
Pohnpeian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]ah
- The name of the Latin-script letter A/a.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]ah
- shark mullet (Rhinomugil nasutus), at a growth stage of approximately twelve inches
Etymology 3
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]ah
- however, and, then
- I sukuhl, ah e doadoahk.
- I went to school, and he worked.
- Ma Soulik pahn iang, ah I sohte pahn iang.
- If Soulik goes, then I won't.
- I sukuhl, ah e doadoahk.
Etymology 4
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Determiner
[edit]ah
- his, her, hers, its, third person singular possessive pronoun
- Liho iang ah pwoud.
- The woman joined her husband.
- Liho iang ah pwoud.
Etymology 5
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah!
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:ah.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ah
References
[edit]- Am Baile (2009) The Cromarty Fisherfolk Dialect[7], Highland Council, page 8
Somali
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
[edit]ah
- (intransitive) To be
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Imitative, similar to French ah.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ah
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ah”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
[edit]Sumerian
[edit]Romanization
[edit]ah
- Romanization of 𒄴 (aḫ)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Interjection
[edit]ah
- ah (expression of understanding, relaxation, contentment, etc.)
- Ah, jag förstår
- Ah, I understand
- Ah, det är skönt att få glida ner i jacuzzin och knäcka en kall öl efter ett hårt arbetspass i skogen
- Ah, it's nice [feels good] to slip ["get to slip" – redundant, but sounds natural] into the jacuzzi and crack open a cold beer after a session of hard work in the forest
- Greven såg ut över sina ägor och tänkte "Ah, underbart!"
- The count looked out over his lands ["ownings"] and thought, "Ah, wonderful!"
References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Tulu-Bohuai
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ah
Further reading
[edit]- Bohuai
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Vilamovian
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Interjection
[edit]ah
- oh: expressing of surprise
- oh: expressing wonder, amazement, or awe
- oh: expressing understanding, recognition, or realization
- oh: preceding an offhand or annoyed remark
- oh: an invocation or address
Zou
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *ak (whence the possessive forms), from Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔaar (“chicken”). Cognates include Khumi Chin ae and Mizo ár.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ah
- fowl
- (specifically) chicken (Gallus gallus)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 49
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- zom:Birds
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