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

Prefix

Ah

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

   Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.

   • 1893 July 4, “Chinese Work in British Columbia”, in Missionary Leaflet, volume 9, number 10, page 2:

     I was called, at about an hour's notice, to take Ah Quai (the girl rescued in the spring), and go with Mr. Gardiner to Seattle, and give evidence in the case of one of the women brought over on the same ship with Ah Quai.

Derived terms

• Ah Beng
• Ah Huay
• Ah Lian
• Ah Seng

 

Translations

used in Chinese names

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿 (yue) (aa³)

  Hakka: 阿 (â)

  Hokkien: 阿 (a)

  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.