ah

mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la).

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

ah

1. 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.

2. A syllable used to fill space, particularly in music.
   • 2008, Britney Spears, Womanizer (song)

     Boy don't try to front, uh, I
     Know just, just, what you are, ah, ah.

ah (plural ahs)

1. An instance of the interjection ah.

   the crowd's oohs and ahs at the fireworks

ah (third-person singular simple present ahs, present participle ahing, simple past and past participle ahed)

1. 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.

ah (personal pronoun, plural we, possessive adjective mah)

1. Eye dialect spelling of I., most often indicating that the speaker is using a Scottish or American (particularly Southern) accent.

• “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.

• HA, Ha, ha, ha'

From Proto-Albanian *aksa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃esko ‘ash’ (compare Greek οξιά (oxiá, “beech”), Armenian հածի (haci), English ash).

ah m (indefinite plural ahe, definite singular ahu, definite plural ahet)

1. beech (Fagus sylvatica)

• ah i bardhë ‘white hornbeam’ (Carpinus betulus)

ah

1. yes

   Synonym: hohmi

ah

1. ah, oh

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑh/, [ˈɑh]
• Hyphenation: ah

ah

1. oh, ah

• IPA^(key): /a/

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ah

1. ah

• Rhymes: -aː

ah

1. expressing understanding
2. expressing contentment

• ah in Duden online

Involuntary expression of emotions: surprise, impatience, desire, sadness, refusal.[1]

IPA^(key): [ˈɒx]

ah

1. ah
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 1

     Ah jó uram, mit láttam én az éjjel!

     Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!

• IPA^(key): /ah/
• Rhymes: -ah

ah!

1. ah! (usually ironic or sarcastic)

• ha

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ah/

ah

1. ah

• 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

IPA^(key): /aχ/

ah

1. (Anglian) but

ah n or f

1. (neuter) wood
2. (feminine) tree

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ɐː/
• Rhymes: -ɐː

ah

1. The name of the Latin-script letter A.

ah

1. shark mullet (Rhinomugil nasutus), at a growth stage of approximately twelve inches

ah

1. 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.

• e
• eh

ah

1. his, her, hers, its, third person singular possessive pronoun

   Liho iang ah pwoud.

   The woman joined her husband.

ah

1. Oh!; commonly used as an expression of approval.

   Ah, ke inenen mai.

   Oh, you are really good.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a/
• Homophone: há

ah!

1. ah! (expression of relief, realization, awe)
2. ah! (expression of woe, grief)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ah.

ah

1. (intransitive) To be

   Bariis oo macaan ah. ― Rice that is sweet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa/
• Homophones: a, ha

ah

1. ah (expression of relief, realization, awe)
2. ah (expression of woe, grief)

• ay
• eh
• ey
• hey
• oh
• hala

• “ah” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

ah

1. ah; an expression of relief

• IPA^(key): /ah/

ah

1. coral lime (for chewing/eating with betelnut)

• Bohuai
• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

ah

1. oh: expressing of surprise
2. oh: expressing wonder, amazement, or awe
3. oh: expressing understanding, recognition, or realization
4. oh: preceding an offhand or annoyed remark
5. oh: an invocation or address