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Translingual
Proper noun
Ah
- (taxonomy) Abbreviation of Aetokthonos hydrillicola.
English
Etymology 1
Noun
Ah (plural Ahs)
- Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Chinese 阿.
Prefix
Ah
- A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.
Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.
1893 July 4, “Chinese Work in British Columbia”, in Missionary Leaflet, volume 9, number 10, page 2:I was called, at about an hour's notice, to take Ah Quai (the girl rescued in the spring), and go with Mr. Gardiner to Seattle, and give evidence in the case of one of the women brought over on the same ship with Ah Quai.
Derived terms
Category English terms prefixed with Ah not found
Translations
Etymology 3
Pronoun
Ah
- Phonetic spelling of "I" in African American Vernacular English, popularized by Zora Neale Hurston
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
Belizean Creole
Pronoun
Ah
- First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I.
References
- Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 24.