Ah

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ah"

English

Noun

Ah (plural Ahs)

Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).
(China) Used in front of a shortened form of peoples' given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to Mister.
Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.

Derived terms

Ah Beng
Ah Lian

Translations

a word used in Chinese nicknames

Chinese:
Cantonese: 阿 (yue) (aa³)

Mandarin: 阿 (zh) (ā)

Interjection

Ah

see ah.

References

“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.

Anagrams

HA, Ha, ha, ha'

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