آه

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Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. From it the root ء و ه (ʔ-w-h).

Interjection

آهِ or آهٍ or آهًا • (ʔāhi or ʔāhin or ʔāhan)

  1. ah, aw, ooh, ouch (expression of physical or emotional pain)
    آهِ مِنْ آلَامِ ٱلرَّأْسِ
    ʔāhi min ʔālāmi r-raʔsi
    Ah, my head hurts.

Derived terms

Noun

آه • (ʔāh) m

  1. pain (physical or emotional)
    لَمْ يَبْقَ لِي مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ إِلَّا الْآهُ.
    lam yabqa lī mina l-ḥayāti ʔillā al-ʔāhu.
    All that I have left of life is the pain.

Declension

Declension of noun آه (ʔāh)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal آه
ʔāh 		الْآه
al-ʔāh 		آه
ʔāh
Nominative آهٌ
ʔāhun 		الْآهُ
al-ʔāhu 		آهُ
ʔāhu
Accusative آهًا
ʔāhan 		الْآهَ
al-ʔāha 		آهَ
ʔāha
Genitive آهٍ
ʔāhin 		الْآهِ
al-ʔāhi 		آهِ
ʔāhi

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Japanese ああ (ā, “yeah”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

آه • (ʔāh)

  1. yes, yeah
    Synonym: ايوه

See also

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Particle

آه • (ʔāh)

  1. yes
    Synonyms: أيه (ʔayyah, ʔayyih), إيه (ʔiyyah), واه (wāh), إيه (ʔīh), آيه (ʔāyyih), نعام (nʕām)
    Antonyms: لا (lā), لَأّ (laʔʔ), لَأَّ (laʔʔa), (humorous) لَأَّيْن (laʔʔayn), (humorous) لَأّتَيْن (laʔʔtayn)

Pashto

Noun

آه • (āh) m

  1. sigh

Interjection

آه • (āh)

  1. ah

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? āh
Dari reading? āh
Iranian reading? âh
Tajik reading? oh

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic: sound of sighing.

Noun

Dari آه
Iranian Persian
Tajik оҳ

آه • (âh)

  1. sigh
    آه طولانی ― âh-e tulâni ― long sigh
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 128:
      داشتی صد دلبری هر دم که آهی کردمی
      آه پنداری ترا ای شوخ کانها یاد نیست
      dāštī sad dilbarī har dam ki āhē kardamē
      āh pindārī tu-rā ay šōx k-ānhā yād nēst
      Every time I let out one sigh, you used to have a hundred comforts;
      You will think of the sigh, o shameless one who does not remember them!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
Derived terms
Descendants

(These descendants may also be parallel onomatopoeic formations.)

  • → Azerbaijani: ah
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: आह (āh)
    Urdu: آه
  • → Ottoman Turkish: آه
    • Turkish: ah
  • → Pashto: آه (āh)

Interjection

آه • (âh)

  1. ah, alas

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare Japanese ああ (ā, “yeah”) and colloquial Arabic آه (ʔāh, “yes”).

Interjection

Dari آری
Iranian Persian آره
Tajik оре

آه • (āh) (Dari)

  1. (colloquial) yes
    Synonyms: آری (ārē), بلی (balē)
  2. (informal) yeah, mm-hmm, uh-huh

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Soqotri

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perhaps cognate to Arabic يَا (yā, “vocative particle”).

Particle

آه (ɛ)

  1. O; hey; you; vocative particle

Etymology 2

Interjection

آه (ɛ)

  1. interjection of assertion

References

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Particle

آه • (ʔā)

  1. yes
    Synonyms: أيوه (ʔaywa), (formal) نعم (naʔam)
    Antonym: لأ (laʔ)
    See also: مبلا (mbala)
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