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3-letter words (1 found)

BAH,

2-letter words (4 found)

AB,AH,BA,HA,

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Definitions and meaning of bah

bah

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Bahamian.

Symbol

bah

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

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Bahamian Creole terms

English

Etymology 1

Early 19th century, probably borrowed from French bah.

Alternative forms

  • baugh (archaic)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bæ/, /bɑː/
  • Rhymes: , -ɑː
  • Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

Interjection

bah

  1. (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
Synonyms
  • (expressing contempt): pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, poh, pish; see also Thesaurus:bah
  • (expressing disgust): bleh, ick, ych a fi; see also Thesaurus:yuck
Derived terms
  • bah humbug
  • pooh-bah, poobah
Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • baa

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

Noun

bah (plural bahs)

  1. Alternative spelling of baa.

Interjection

bah

  1. Alternative spelling of baa.

Etymology 3

Particle

bah

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) Alternative spelling of ba.

See also

  • sis boom bah
  • (Singlish particles): ah, hor, lah, leh, liao, lor, mah, meh, one, sia, what

Anagrams

  • ABH, AHB, BHA, HAB, HBA, Hab, Hab., hab

Dutch

Etymology

Exclamatory

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑ/
  • Hyphenation: bah

Interjection

bah

  1. An exclamation of disapproval, contempt or disgust: bah, yuck

French

Etymology

Not well-attested in texts, but of imitative origin nevertheless, similar to bayer (to gape). Sense 2 is a denasalized version of "ben".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba/

Interjection

bah

  1. No.
  2. An exclamation to fill space, often used as an intensifier; well, err, um
    Synonym: ben
    Tu veux jouer aussi ?Bah, ouais.
    Do you want to play too?Well, yeah.

Further reading

  • “bah”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • hab

German

Alternative forms

  • bäh

Etymology

Exclamatory

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba(h)/, /baː/, /ba.aː/

Interjection

bah

  1. an exclamation of disgust: yuck, etc.
    Synonyms: igitt, iiih, pfui, üäh

Hokkien

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəah/

Noun

bah

  1. flood (overflow of water)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbah/ [ˈbah]
  • Rhymes: -ah
  • Syllabification: bah

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay bah, from Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

Noun

bah (plural bah-bah)

  1. (dialectal) synonym of banjir (flood)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch bah.

Interjection

bah

  1. synonym of idih

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Malay bah.

Interjection

bah

  1. (dialectal) an exclamation of intimacy

Further reading

  • “bah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Exclamatory

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba/, which may be followed by [h] or [ʔ] or trigger syntactic gemination.
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: bah

Interjection

bah

  1. indicates astonishment, resignation and despise; usually used after noticing or hearing something you don't like or you don't know what to think about, to avoid commenting or giving an answer to a question

See also

  • mah

References

Further reading

  • bah in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bah/
  • Rhymes: -ah

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq. Cognate with Sundanese caah.

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به, plural bah-bah)

  1. flood (overflow of water)
    Synonym: banjir
Descendants
  • Indonesian: bah

Etymology 2

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. short for abah

Etymology 3

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. short for babah

Etymology 4

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. abbreviation of bahasa

Etymology 5

Preposition

bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. alternative form of bawah

Portuguese

Interjection

bah!

  1. (Rio Grande do Sul) alternative form of

Simalungun Batak

Noun

bah

  1. water
  2. river

References

  • Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 18.

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from Latin vāh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba/ [ˈba]
  • Rhymes: -a

Interjection

bah

  1. indicates disdain or unbelief

See also

  • qué va

Further reading

  • “bah”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Zou

Verb

bah

  1. bet

References

  • http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

Zyphe

Verb

bah

  1. to owe

References

  • Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎[1]

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