hah

hah

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Hahon.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hahon terms

• enPR: hä, IPA^(key): /hɑː/, [ha(ː)]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

hah

1. Alternative form of ha.
2. Alternative form of huh.
   • 1994, Milton Teichman, Sharon Leder, Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems on the Holocaust, page 58:

     Shut up, buddy, you've forgotten that I can't run. Now you're the wise guy, hah?

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     Isaac Sachs makes a 'Hah?' noise. 'You're not Sixsmith's niece?'

hah (plural hahs)

1. Alternative form of heh (“Semitic letter”).

• hem and hah

Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ).

• har

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /hɑː˨/, [-˧˨]
  • Particle, sense 2: IPA^(key): /hɑː˨˦/
  • Interjection, sense 2: IPA^(key): [hɑː˨˦˨]
  • Often nasalized.

hah (Manglish, Singlish)

2. Synonym of ah (sense 1); used to form tag questions prompting the listener to confirm something.
   • 1989, Eleanor Wong, Jackson on a Jaunt, or, Mistaken Identities, page 5, lines 23–31:

     Mother: Just wait awhile, Susan. Jack said he’d be a little late. […] What would you like to drink, some Coca Cola?
     Susan: That’s alright Aunty. We’re going out to dinner.
     Mother: Or you prefer Pepsi, hah? We don’t drink Pepsi ourself, I always keep a few bottles just in case. Some people are so fussy.

3. (after lah) Used to form a tag question, either to invite acknowledgment, or to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.

   Synonym: hor (sense 1)

   So, just make sure you don’t accidentally mix the two together lah, hah?

4. Tagged at the end of a confirmation-seeking sentence to express subtle surprise or realisation.

hah (Manglish, Singlish)

1. Huh!; used to express subtle surprise or amusement in a conversation.
2. Expression of discontent when one is faced with a rude awakening.

• ahh

hah

1. water

• Eugene H. Casad, From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system (2012)

Variant of ha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑh/, [ˈhɑ̝h]
• Rhymes: -ɑh
• Syllabification^(key): hah
• Hyphenation^(key): hah

hah

1. ha

• “hah”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒh]
• Rhymes: -ɒx

hah

1. (poetic) ah! oh!

• hah in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑh/, [ˈhɑh]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑh/, [ˈhɑh]
• Rhymes: -ɑh
• Hyphenation: hah

hah

1. Used to reinforce a question: eh?

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40

hah

1. quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly
2. immediately, promptly

• tsį́į́ł

From Ottoman Turkish هاه (hah).

hah

1. aha

   Hah! Bu olur işte.

   Aha! This will work.

hah

1. aha

   Hah! mı zi wıni va.

   Aha! I said like this.