Meaning

4 senses
  1. An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.

    Ah, I understand now.

    Ah! It's good to be back home!

    аa, ага́agá, оo

  2. A syllable used to fill space, particularly in music.

  3. (Manglish, Singlish)Used condescendingly, somewhat like “see?” or “I told you so”.

    Pitch contour: mid-falling /ɑ(ː)˧˨/, falling /ɑ(ː)˦˨/, sometimes nasalized

  4. Yuck.

Examples

199 sentences
  1. Ah, I see what you mean.

    ruА, я понял, что ты имеешь в виду. — marafon

  2. We heard oohs and ahs from the audience.

  3. Ah, there Tom is.

  4. "Ah" is an interjection.

    ru"Ах" - это междометие. — sharptoothed

    de„Ah“ ist eine Interjektion. — lilygilder

  5. Ah, that's much better.

    О, це набагато краще. — shanghainese

    ruО, это намного лучше. — marafon

    deAh, das ist viel besser! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
an expression:

Origin

From Middle English ah, aa, a (“ah”), of imitative origin, or from Old English ēa, *eah (“

From Middle English ah, aa, a (“ah”), of imitative origin, or from Old English ēa, *eah (“oh, alas”), from Proto-West Germanic *a, *ah (“ah”). Earliest recorded use is circa 1175 in the Ormulum: A, Maȝȝstre! icc wat tatt tu full wiss Arrt Godess Sune ("Ah, Master! I know for sure that thou art God's Son"). Some propose that the Middle English is borrowed from Old French a (“ah!, oh!, hey!”) (represented by modern French ah).

From Hokkien 啊 (--a, a) and Teochew 啊 (a⁷), reinforced by Tamil -ஆ (-ā, etymology 3, particle sense 1) among Tamil speakers (Baskaran, 1988).

Imitative of a person gagging.

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