aah

See also:åh,AAH,ááh,andääh

Translingual

Symbol

aah

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language codeforAbuʼ Arapesh.

English

WOTD – 7 May 2006

Pronunciation

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As an interjection the word is pronounced basically the same way as the interjectionahbut the doubleastresses prolongation. In the noun and the verb there is no extra prolongation.

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Interjection

aah

1. Indication ofamazementorsurpriseorenthusiasm.

   Aah!That's amazing!

   • 1985,Joan Morrison, chapter 5, inShare House Blues,Boolarong Publications, page62:

     'Aaah!' they sigh, as the silvery Space Shuttle races heavenwards on top of a towering pillar of flame.

2. Indication ofjoyfulpleasure.
   • 1834,Edgar Allan Poe,The Assignation:

     Yet I remember—aah!how should I forget?

3. Indication of sympathy.

   Aah,I feel so bad for you...

4. Indication of mouth being opened wide.

   Dentists would always instruct, sayaah!

5. To express understanding.

   Aah.Now I understand.

6. The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).

   AAAHHH!A bug! A bug! Get it off me! Get it off me!

   Aah!A rat!

Derived terms

• say aah

Translations

expressing amazement or surprise

• Armenian:ուխ(hy)(ux),ահ(hy)(ah)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:A(zh)(a),Oa(zh)(wa),Nha(zh)(ya)

• Danish:ah,aha
• Dutch:och(nl)
• Estonian:ah(et)
• Georgian:აჰ(ah)
• Hungarian:á(hu)
• Kazakh:аһ(ah)
• Latin:hui
• Lithuanian:ach(lt)
• Polish:ach(pl)
• Portuguese:nossa(pt)
• Russian:ах(ru)(ax)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:о

  Roman:o(sh)

• Shan:ဢႃ(shn)(ʼǎa)
• Spanish:¡ay!(es),¡ah!(es)
• Swedish:åh(sv),oh(sv),ah(sv)
• Tuvan:аа(aa)

Noun

aah(pluralaahs)

1. Expression ofamazement,surprise,enthusiasm,orfear.
2. Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
3. The exclamation aah.

Translations

expression of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm

• Estonian:ahhetus(et)
• Polish:ach(pl)

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• Telugu:^{(pleaseverify)}ఆహా(te)(āhā)

Verb

aah(third-person singular simple presentaahs,present participleaahing,simple past and past participleaahed)

1. (intransitive,informal)To say or exclaimaah.
   1. To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjectionaah.

      Everyone who came by oohed andaahedover her new appearance.

      • 2010,Kieran Kramer,chapter 7, inWhen Harry Met Molly,St. Martin’sPaperbacks,→ISBN,page66:

        In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing andaahingat the varied fabrics, the elaborate detailing of each one, until she found a dress that was— / Breathtaking.

   2. To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjectionaah.

Usage notes

• The object of feelings usually is indicated by the prepositionsoverorat.
• Very often the word is used together with some other verb derived from an interjection. The most common combination istooohand aah.

Translations

to express amazement using "aah!"

• Estonian:ahhetama(et)

Anagrams

• AHA,a-ha,aha

East Central German

Etymology

CompareGermanauch.

Adverb

aah

1. (Erzgebirgisch)also,too

Further reading

• 2020June 11, Hendrik Heidler,Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1],3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand,→ISBN,→OCLC,page13:

Finnish

Etymology

Seeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈɑːh/,[ˈɑ̝ːh]
• IPA^(key):/ˈɑː/,[ˈɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes:-ɑːh
• Syllabification^(key):aah

Interjection

aah

1. aah(indication of joyful pleasure)

Further reading

• “aah”,inKielitoimiston sanakirja[Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2](in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus(Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–,retrieved2023-07-02

Anagrams

• aha,haa

Manx

Alternative forms

• aae

Etymology

FromOld Irisháth(compareIrisháth,Scottish Gaelicàth), fromProto-Celtic*yātus(“ford”).

Noun

aahf(genitive singularaah,pluralaahghynoraaghyn)

1. (geography)ford

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 áth”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language