Ah
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ah"
Translingual
editProper noun
editAh
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editAh (plural Ahs)
- Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).
Etymology 2
editPrefix
editAh
- A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.
- Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.
- 1893 July 4, “Chinese Work in British Columbia”, in Missionary Leaflet, volume 9, number 10, page 2:
- I was called, at about an hour's notice, to take Ah Quai (the girl rescued in the spring), and go with Mr. Gardiner to Seattle, and give evidence in the case of one of the women brought over on the same ship with Ah Quai.
Derived terms
editCategory English terms prefixed with Ah not found
Translations
editused in Chinese names
Etymology 3
editPronoun
editAh
- Phonetic spelling of "I" in African American Vernacular English, popularized by Zora Neale Hurston
References
edit- “Ah”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “Ah”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
editBelizean Creole
editPronoun
editAh
- First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 24.
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