آه

Arabic

Root
ء و ه (ʔ w h)
3 terms

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

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

Verb

آهَ • (ʔāha) I (non-past يَؤُوهُ (yaʔūhu), verbal noun أَوْه (ʔawh) or آهَة (ʔāha))

  1. to moan, groan

Conjugation

Conjugation of آهَ (I, hollow, a ~ u, no passive, verbal nouns أَوْه, آهَة)
verbal noun
الْمَصْدَر 		أَوْه, آهَة
ʔawh, ʔāha
active participle
اِسْم الْفَاعِل 		آئِه
ʔāʔih
active voice
الْفِعْل الْمَعْلُوم
singular
الْمُفْرَد 		dual
الْمُثَنَّى 		plural
الْجَمْع
1st person
الْمُتَكَلِّم 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب 		1st person
الْمُتَكَلِّم 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب
past (perfect) indicative
الْمَاضِي 		m أُهْتُ
ʔuhtu 		أُهْتَ
ʔuhta 		آهَ
ʔāha 		أُهْتُمَا
ʔuhtumā 		آهَا
ʔāhā 		أُهْنَا
ʔuhnā 		أُهْتُمْ
ʔuhtum 		آهُوا
ʔāhū
f أُهْتِ
ʔuhti 		آهَتْ
ʔāhat 		آهَتَا
ʔāhatā 		أُهْتُنَّ
ʔuhtunna 		أُهْنَ
ʔuhna
non-past (imperfect) indicative
الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع 		m أَؤُوهُ
ʔaʔūhu 		تَؤُوهُ
taʔūhu 		يَؤُوهُ
yaʔūhu 		تَؤُوهَانِ
taʔūhāni 		يَؤُوهَانِ
yaʔūhāni 		نَؤُوهُ
naʔūhu 		تَؤُوهُونَ
taʔūhūna 		يَؤُوهُونَ
yaʔūhūna
f تَؤُوهِينَ
taʔūhīna 		تَؤُوهُ
taʔūhu 		تَؤُوهَانِ
taʔūhāni 		تَؤُهْنَ
taʔuhna 		يَؤُهْنَ
yaʔuhna
subjunctive
الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب 		m أَؤُوهَ
ʔaʔūha 		تَؤُوهَ
taʔūha 		يَؤُوهَ
yaʔūha 		تَؤُوهَا
taʔūhā 		يَؤُوهَا
yaʔūhā 		نَؤُوهَ
naʔūha 		تَؤُوهُوا
taʔūhū 		يَؤُوهُوا
yaʔūhū
f تَؤُوهِي
taʔūhī 		تَؤُوهَ
taʔūha 		تَؤُوهَا
taʔūhā 		تَؤُهْنَ
taʔuhna 		يَؤُهْنَ
yaʔuhna
jussive
الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم 		m أَؤُهْ
ʔaʔuh 		تَؤُهْ
taʔuh 		يَؤُهْ
yaʔuh 		تَؤُوهَا
taʔūhā 		يَؤُوهَا
yaʔūhā 		نَؤُهْ
naʔuh 		تَؤُوهُوا
taʔūhū 		يَؤُوهُوا
yaʔūhū
f تَؤُوهِي
taʔūhī 		تَؤُهْ
taʔuh 		تَؤُوهَا
taʔūhā 		تَؤُهْنَ
taʔuhna 		يَؤُهْنَ
yaʔuhna
imperative
الْأَمْر 		m أُهْ
ʔuh 		أُوهَا
ʔūhā 		أُوهُوا
ʔūhū
f أُوهِي
ʔūhī 		أُهْنَ
ʔuhna

Egyptian Arabic

Alternative forms

  • اه (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [(ʔ)ɑː(h)]

Interjection

آه • (ā)

  1. yes, yeah (response to a question)
    Synonyms: ايوه (aywa), حاضر (ḥāḍir) (polite)
  2. A grunt expressing pain.

See also

  • نعم (naʕam, “yes (reponse to a call)”)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaːh/

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 [since 11th century]
    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 [since 10th century]

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

Regional synonyms of "yes" (colloquial)
Dari آه
Iranian Persian ها
Tajik ҳа

آه • (āh)

  1. (Dari, colloquial) yes
    Synonyms: آری (ārē), بلی (balē)
  2. (Dari, 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

  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 374

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaː/, [ʔɑː]
  • 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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