Ah

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ah"

Translingual

Proper noun

Ah

1. (taxonomy) Abbreviation of Aetokthonos hydrillicola.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

Ah (plural Ahs)

1. Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 阿

Noun

Ah

1. A Chinese prefix used with a shortened form of peoples' given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to nickname.

   Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.

Derived terms

• Ah Beng
• Ah Lian

 

Translations

used in Chinese names

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿 (yue) (aa³)

  Mandarin: 阿 (zh) (ā)

• Thai: ^{(please verify)} อา (th) (aa)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

Ah

1. 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

• HA, Ha, ha, ha'

Belizean Creole

Pronoun

Ah

1. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I.

Related terms

• Ai

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 24.