aitch

See also: Aitch.

English

From Old French ache, from Late Latin *accha, *ahha, or *aha, extension of earlier ha. Compare Italian acca.

aitch (plural aitches)

The name of the Latin-script letter H.
The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

Cockneys drop their aitches.

name of the letter H, h

Arabic: إِتْش‎ m (ʾeytš), هَا‎ f (hā)
Catalan: hac (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English; no other standard Mandarin name exists)
Czech: há (cs) n
Esperanto: ho (eo)
Faroese: há n
Finnish: hoo (fi)
French: âche (fr) m or f, ache (fr) m or f
Galician: hache (gl) m
German: Ha n
Greek: έιτς n (éits)
Hawaiian: hē
Hindi: एच (ēc)
Hungarian: há
Icelandic: há (hau)
Ido: he (io)
Irish: héis, uath

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