aah

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aah"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Abuʼ Arapesh.

Symbol

aah

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Abu'.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Abu' terms

English

WOTD – 7 May 2006

Pronunciation

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As an interjection the word is pronounced basically the same way as the interjection ah but the double a stresses prolongation. In the noun and the verb there is no extra prolongation.

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Interjection

aah

1. Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.

   Aah! That's amazing!

   • 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 5, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 62:

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

2. Indication of joyful pleasure.
   • 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, say aah!

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: 啊 (zh) (a), 哇 (zh) (wa), 呀 (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) Mari: Eastern Mari: а-а (a-a) 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 (plural aahs)

1. Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.
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: (please verify) ఆహా (te) (āhā)

Verb

aah (third-person singular simple present aahs, present participle aahing, simple past and past participle aahed)

1. (intransitive, informal) To say or exclaim aah.
   1. To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah.

      Everyone who came by oohed and aahed over her new appearance.

      • 2010, Kieran Kramer, chapter 7, in When Harry Met Molly, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 66:

        In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing and aahing at 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 interjection aah.

Usage notes

• The object of feelings usually is indicated by the prepositions over or at.
• Very often the word is used together with some other verb derived from an interjection. The most common combination is to ooh and aah.

Translations

to express amazement using "aah!"

Estonian: ahhetama (et)

Anagrams

• AHA, a-ha, aha, HAA

East Central German

Etymology

Compare German auch.

Adverb

aah

1. (Erzgebirgisch) also, too

Further reading

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), 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 (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13

Finnish

Etymology

See ah.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

aah

1. aah (indication of joyful pleasure)

Further reading

• “aah”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Anagrams

• aha, haa

Manx

Alternative forms

• aae

Etymology

From Old Irish áth (compare Irish áth, Scottish Gaelic àth), from Proto-Celtic *yātus (“ford”).

Noun

aah f (genitive singular aah, plural aahghyn or aaghyn)

1. (geography) ford

References

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