gah

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: gäh and GAH

English

[edit]

Interjection

[edit]

gah

  1. Expressing exasperation or annoyance.
    • 2009 January 20, Alison Godfrey, quoting Bronwyn Lovejoy, “Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook”, in Herald Sun[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2009:
      “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”

Anagrams

[edit]

Azerbaijani

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Persian گاه.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Conjunction

[edit]

gah

  1. Used to denote repeated alternation of enumerated actions, events or objects.
    Gah belə deyir, gah elə.
    Sometimes he says this, sometimes that.
    i.e., He keeps changing his opinion.
    Gah sola gedir, gah sağa, özü bilmir hara getsin.
    He walks left, then he walks right, he doesn't know where to go himself.
    i.e. He keeps turning to different directions.

Further reading

[edit]
  • gah” in Obastan.com.

Chipewyan

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

[edit]

gah

  1. rabbit

References

[edit]
  • Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
[edit]
Navajo Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nv

Etymology

[edit]

Cognate with Tsuut'ina nitłʼadigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, Tlingit g̱áx̱ and South Slavey gah.

Noun

[edit]

gah

  1. rabbit

Derived terms

[edit]

Pali

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Sanskrit गृह् (gṛh).

Root

[edit]

gah (Pali name gaha)

  1. to seize, to take

Usage notes

[edit]

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.

Derived terms

[edit]
Verbs
Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives
Nouns

Sekani

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

[edit]

gah

  1. rabbit

References

[edit]
  • Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

South Slavey

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Athabaskan *gax̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): [kà(h)]
  • Hyphenation: gah

Noun

[edit]

gah (stem -gah-)

  1. rabbit

Inflection

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99

Western Apache

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

gah

  1. rabbit