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3-letter words (2 found)

HAN,NAH,

2-letter words (4 found)

AH,AN,HA,NA,

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Definitions and meaning of nah

nah

Translingual

Symbol

nah

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Nahuan languages.

English

Etymology 1

Colloquial/unarticulated form of no. Compare yeah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [næː], [nɑː], [nẽː]
  • Rhymes: -æ, -ɑː

Interjection

nah

  1. (informal) No.
    Synonym: naw
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay nah.

Interjection

nah

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) here! (when giving something).
    Nah, take this. ― Here, take this.

See also

  • nah mean

Anagrams

  • han, anh., ahn, Hàn, Han, HNA

Achang

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) /na˦˧/

Pronoun

nah

  1. your (2nd-person singular possessive pronoun)

Further reading

  • Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎[1], Payap University, page 84

Big Nambas

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *nago.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naɣ/

Noun

nah

  1. face
  2. front

References

  • Big Nambas Grammar, Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nago”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

German

Alternative forms

  • nahe (dated or very formal; also a preposition, which is formal too)

Etymology

From Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Compare English nigh. Doublet of nach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naː/
  • Rhymes: -aː

Adjective

nah (strong nominative masculine singular naher, comparative näher, superlative am nächsten)

  1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense), close, nearby
    Antonym: fern
    • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 573:

Declension

Derived terms

Adverb

nah

  1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense)
    Antonyms: weit, fern

Further reading

  • “nah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “nah” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “nah” in OpenThesaurus.de

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nah/

Conjunction

nah

  1. Used to conclude a speech or train of thought; now; so; right; okay
    Nah, itu yang tidak bisa kita ketahui. ― Now, that's what we haven't been able to find out.

Interjection

nah

  1. I told you so! See?! (at long last the penny's dropped)
    Nah! Makanya jangan makan buah banyak-banyak (a mother scolding a child who has a stomachache)
    See?! That's why you shouldn't eat a lot of fruit.

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nah/
  • Rhymes: -nah, -ah

Interjection

nah (Jawi spelling نه)

  1. here! (when giving something).

Further reading

  • “nah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mokilese

Noun

nah (construct nihn)

  1. (one's) child
  2. (one's) small object

Usage notes

Like many terms in Mokilese, nah has no non-possessive form; the third person singular possessive form (one's/his/her/its child) is therefore treated as the lemma.

Derived terms

  • nihn li
  • nihn woal

Munsee

Particle

náh

  1. there
    Téet náh apúw. ― Maybe he is there.

References

  • O'Meara, John (2014) “náh”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, →ISBN

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɑːx/

Verb

nāh

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of nāgan

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Cognates include Old English nēh, nēah and Old Norse ná.

Adjective

nāh

  1. close
  2. near
Derived terms
  • nāhī
Descendants
  • Middle High German: nāch
    • Alemannic German: naach, nooch
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: nå
      Mòcheno: no
    • Central Franconian: noh
    • German: nah
    • Luxembourgish: no
    • Yiddish: (via the adverb nāhunt) נאָענט (noent)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.

Preposition

nāh (takes dative)

  1. towards
  2. after (time)
Descendants
  • Middle High German: nāh
    • German: nach
    • Luxembourgish: no
    • Yiddish: נאָך (nokh)

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw. Cognates include Old English nēah and Old Norse ná.

Adjective

nāh (comparative nāhiro, superlative nāhist)

  1. near
  2. close
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle Low German: nâch, nâ
    • German Low German: na
See also
  • nāho

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhuriʀ(ō).

Preposition

nāh (takes dative)

  1. to, towards

Turkish

Etymology

From either Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian на.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɑh/

Interjection

nah

  1. (informal) lo!, there it is!
  2. (vulgar) Makes the following word negative
  3. (vulgar) accompanies the fig sign (compare Russian кукиш)

Source: wiktionary.org