हा

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/, [ɦäː]

Of onomatopoeic origin.

हा • (hā)

1. an expression of amusement

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀳𑀸 (hā), from Sanskrit हा (hā), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.^[1]

हा • (hā)

1. an exclamation of distress, affliction or fear; alas

हा • (hā) m

1. sound of distress, affliction, or fear
2. uproar, tumult

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـها (-hā).

हा • (hā)

1. (poetic) plural marker (used chiefly in ezafe-constructs)
   • Brij Narayan Chakbast, रामायण का एक सीन:

     जुंबिश हुई लबों को भरी एक सर्द आह
     ली गोशा-हा-ए-चश्म से अश्कों ने रुख़ की राह

     jumbiś huī labõ ko bharī ek sard āh
     lī gośā-hā-e-caśma se aśkõ ne rux kī rāh

     Heaved a cold sigh unto the lips put into motion
     Tears took the way to face from the corners of eyes.

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “हा”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “हा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɦa/

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हा • (hā)

1. he (proximal)

   हा सुरेश.

   hā sureś.

   He (proximal) is Suresh.

2. this

   हा खोका खूप मोठा आहे.

   hā khokā khūp moṭhā āhe.

   This box is very big.

• तो (to, “he; that”)
• हे (he, “it (proximal); this”), ही (hī, “she (proximal); this”).

• IPA^(key): [ha]

हा • (hā) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐴𑐵)

1. bee

हा • (hā) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐴𑐵)

1. root of a plant, tree, etc.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaH-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave, abandon”).^[1] This root is not always easily distinguishable from the one below, and some derived terms of that root are perhaps originally derived from this one.

हा • (hā)

1. to leave, abandon, desert, quit, forsake, relinquish
2. to discharge, emit.
3. to put away, take off, remove, lay aside, give up, renounce, resign, avoid, shun, abstain or refrain from.
4. to disregard, neglect.
5. to lose, be deprived of.
6. to get rid of. escape from.
7. to cause to emit (with शर्धम्, ‘to cause to break wind’)

Primary Verbal Forms

Secondary Forms

Non-Finite Forms

Derived Nominal Forms

Prefixed Root Forms

From the middle voice of the same Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰeh₁- as the root above. This root is not always easily distinguishable from the one above, and some derived terms of that root are perhaps originally derived from this one.

हा • (hā)

1. to start or spring forward, bound away, give way to [with dative]
2. to spring or leap upon
3. to go or depart or betake one's self to have recourse to [with accusative]
4. to fall or come into any state

Primary Verbal Forms

Secondary Forms

Non-Finite Forms

Onomatopoeic.

हा • (hā)

1. oh, alas

• Monier Williams (1899) “हा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1296/1-2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 204

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “hā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 172-173
• Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2011–2024) Addenda und Corrigenda zu LIV²‎^[2], page 25