weh

From Nepali (wah donka).

weh (plural wehs)

1. (archaic) A red panda.

• IPA^(key): /wɛ(ː)/
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -ɛː

weh

1. Alternative form of wah
   • 1864, Flora Dawson, Princes, Public Men, and Pretty Women: Episodes in Real Life:

     oh weh ! oh weh ! " — Sweetest mother, you have the illness ; oh weh ! oh weh ! It was so

   • 1910, Katherine Mansfield, The Child-Who_Was-Tired:

     "Oh, weh! oh, weh!" The Child-Who-Was-Tired pushed and pulled them apart, muffled them into their coats, and drove them out of the house.

   • 1992, Ewa Kuryluk, Century 21, →ISBN, page 307:

     Perhaps it's in Lausanne, at the shore of Lake Leman, and in the widow's arms that Wolf wrote Oh weh! Perhaps she whispered it into his ear, when they first slept together, or when he parted from her. Perhaps it was her oh weh! he could never forget.

   • 2008, Bluedan, Resume, →ISBN, page 7:

     I tell you that it's true compassion, baby, oh weh.

   • 2012, Regina F. Bendix, Galit Hasan-Rokem, A Companion to Folklore, →ISBN, page 90:

     "Kill one village, But leave another. Kill one village, But leave another. On the lake: weh weh weh weh weh.

   • 2017, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales:

     At last one night the Master of Sorcerers in secret places raised his voice and cried: “Weh-h-h-h! Weh-h-h-h-h-h!”

• Hew, hew

• weh', wehe (for the interjection)

From Middle High German wē, from Old High German wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai.

Compare Latin vae, Dutch wee, English woe, Danish ve, Swedish ve, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai).

• IPA^(key): /veː/

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• Homophone: W
• Rhymes: -eː

weh (strong nominative masculine singular weher, comparative weher, superlative am wehsten or am wehesten)

1. sore, painful

   einen wehen Zeh haben ― to have a sore toe

   ein wehes Bein haben ― to have a sore leg

   Ihr ist ganz weh zumute. ― She feels very painful.

   Ihm wurde ganz weh ums Herz. ― His heart ached.

weh

1. alas! woe!

   Freunde sind gut, aber wehe dem, der ihrer bedarf in der Not. ― Friends are good, but woe to anyone who needs them in times of need.

   • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten‎ (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:

     „O weh, du mein schönes Paradies!“ weinte Adam und weinte Eva.

     “Oh woe, you beautiful Paradise of mine!” Adam wept and Eve wept.

• wehtun
• weinen
• wenig

• Cassell's German and English Dictionary (1933)

• IPA^(key): /weh/
• Rhymes: -weh

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

weh

1. gift

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weh

1. an emphatic particle

• "weh" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Compare German weh. Possibly from Middle High German.

weh

1. sore, painful

Compare nge / ngek / nye / nyek. See also Hokkien 諧／谐 (ôe, “to persuade; to advise; to harmonize”) as in 諧煞／谐煞 (ôe-soah, “to mediate; to conciliate; to reconcile”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwe/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: weh

weh? (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜒ) (slang)

1. Expression of disbelief or skepticism: oh really

   Synonym: ows

   Weh, di nga?

   Oh really, is it really not?

• whe
• huweh

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwe/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: weh

weh (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜒ) (dialectal, chiefly Bulacan)

1. Alternative form of e

• “Weh?!” in Tagalog.com.
• “WEH” in Tagalog-English Dictionary, TAGALOG LANG, 2007.