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See also: NAH and Nah.

Translingual

Symbol

nah

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Nahuan languages.

English

Etymology 1

Colloquial/unarticulated form of no. Compare yeah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): , ,
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: , -ɑː

Interjection

nah

  1. (informal) No.
    Synonym: naw
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay nah or Chinese (, take).

Interjection

nah

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) here! (when giving something).
    Nah, take this.Here, take this.

Anagrams

Big Nambas

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *nago.

Pronunciation

Noun

nah

  1. face
  2. front
    iter a nah nəmah
    It is in front of the house.

References

  • Big Nambas Grammar, Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox
  • Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*nago”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

German

Alternative forms

  • nahe (dated or very formal; also a preposition, which is formal too)

Etymology

From Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Compare English nigh. Doublet of nach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nah (strong nominative masculine singular naher, comparative näher, superlative am nächsten)

  1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense), close, nearby
    Antonym: fern
    Ich plane in naher Zukunft eine Reise nach Deutschland.
    I'm planning a trip to Germany in the near future.
    • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 573:
      Ellen stand am Fenster und hörte durch Herbstwind und Regen vom nahen Bahnhof herüber die Züge pfeifen.
      Ellen stood at the window and heard the trains whistling from the nearby station through autumn wind and rain.

Declension

Derived terms

Adverb

nah

  1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense)
    Antonyms: weit, fern

Further reading

  • nah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • nah” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • nah” in OpenThesaurus.de

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Conjunction

nah

  1. Used to conclude a speech or train of thought; now; so; right; okay
    Nah, itu yang tidak bisa kita ketahui.Now, that's what we haven't been able to find out.
    Lalu saya dipecat dengan tidak hormat. Nah, ini yang minimbulkan perasaan bahwa itu keterlaluan.
    Then I was given a dishonourable dismissal. Now, this is what made me feel that they had over-stepped the mark.

Interjection

nah

  1. I told you so! See?! (at long last the penny's dropped).
    Nah! Makanya jangan makan buah banyak-banyak (a mother scolding a child who has a stomachache)
    See?! That's why you shouldn't eat a lot of fruit.

Malay

Pronunciation

Interjection

nah (Jawi spelling نه)

  1. here! (when giving something).
    Nah! Ambil ini.
    Here! Take this.

Further reading

Mokilese

Noun

nah

  1. (one's) child
  2. (one's) small object

Usage notes

Like many terms in Mokilese, nah has no non-possessive form; the third person singular possessive form (one's/his/her/its child) is therefore treated as the lemma.

Munsee

Particle

náh

  1. there
    Téet náh apúw.Maybe he is there.

References

  • O'Meara, John (2014) “náh”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, →ISBN

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Cognates include Old English nēh, nēah and Old Norse .

Adjective

nāh

  1. close
  2. near
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Middle High German: nāch
    • Alemannic German: naach, nooch
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian:
      Mòcheno: no
    • Central Franconian: noh
    • German: nah
    • Luxembourgish: no

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.

Preposition

nāh (takes dative)

  1. towards
  2. after (time)
Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw. Cognates include Old English nēah and Old Norse .

Adjective

nāh (comparative nāhiro, superlative nāhist)

  1. near
  2. close
Declension


Descendants
  • Middle Low German: nâch,
    • German Low German: na
See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhuriʀ(ō).

Preposition

nāh (takes dative)

  1. to, towards

Turkish

Etymology

From either Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian на.

Pronunciation

Interjection

nah

  1. (informal) lo!, there it is!
    Nah bu kadar bir boyu vardı.
    Lo, it had a size that big.
  2. (vulgar) Makes the following word negative
    Nah yaparsın!
    You'll do shit!
  3. (vulgar) accompanies the fig sign (compare Russian кукиш)