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

• تَأَوَّهَ (taʔawwaha)

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

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːʱ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔʱ]

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

• آه کشیدن (âh kešidan, “to sigh”)

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”) and colloquial Arabic آه (ʔāh, “yes”).

Interjection

Dari	آری
Iranian Persian	آره
Tajik	оре

آه • (āh) (Dari)

1. (colloquial) yes

   Synonyms: آری (ārē), بلی (balē)

2. (informal) yeah, mm-hmm, uh-huh

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Soqotri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

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]

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Particle

آه • (ʔā)

1. yes

   Synonyms: أيوه (ʔaywa), (formal) نعم (naʔam)

   Antonym: لأ (laʔ)

   See also: مبلا (mbala)