Ah

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ah"

English

Noun

Ah (plural Ahs)

1. Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).
2. (China) Used in front of a shortened form of peoples' given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to Mister.

   Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.

Derived terms

• Ah Beng
• Ah Lian

 

Translations

a word used in Chinese nicknames

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿 (yue) (aa³)

  Mandarin: 阿 (zh) (ā)

Interjection

Ah

1. see ah.

References

• “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

• HA, Ha, ha, ha'