# aah
## Translingual
### Symbol

aah
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Abuʼ Arapesh.

## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
As an interjection the word is pronounced basically the same way as the interjection ah but the double a stresses prolongation. In the noun and the verb there is no extra prolongation.
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Interjection

aah
* Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
    Aah! That's amazing!
** 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 5, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 62:'Aaah!' they sigh, as the silvery Space Shuttle races heavenwards on top of a towering pillar of flame.
* Indication of joyful pleasure.
** 1834, Edgar Allan Poe, The Assignation:Yet I remember—aah! how should I forget?
* Indication of sympathy.
    Aah, I feel so bad for you...
* Indication of mouth being opened wide.
    Dentists would always instruct, say aah!
* To express understanding.
    Aah. Now I understand.
* The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
    AAAHHH! A bug! A bug! Get it off me! Get it off me!
    Aah! A rat!

#### Derived terms

* say aah

#### Translations
### Noun

aah (plural aahs)
* Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.
* Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
* The exclamation aah.

#### Translations

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### Verb

aah (third-person singular simple present aahs, present participle aahing, simple past and past participle aahed)
* (intransitive, informal) To say or exclaim aah.
** To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah.
    Everyone who came by oohed and aahed over her new appearance.
*** 2010, Kieran Kramer, chapter 7, in When Harry Met Molly, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 66:In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing and aahing at the varied fabrics, the elaborate detailing of each one, until she found a dress that was— / Breathtaking.
** To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjection aah.

#### Usage notes

* The object of feelings usually is indicated by the prepositions over or at.
* Very often the word is used together with some other verb derived from an interjection. The most common combination is to ooh and aah.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* AHA, a-ha, aha, HAA

## East Central German
### Etymology

Compare German auch.

### Adverb

aah
* (Erzgebirgisch) also, too

### Further reading

* 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:

## Finnish
### Etymology

See ah.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑːh/, [ˈɑ̝ːh]
* IPA: /ˈɑː/, [ˈɑ̝ː]
* Rhymes: -ɑːh
* Hyphenation: aah

### Interjection

aah
* aah (indication of joyful pleasure)

### Further reading

* “aah”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

### Anagrams

* aha, haa

## Manx
### Alternative forms

* aae

### Etymology

From Old Irish áth (compare Irish áth, Scottish Gaelic àth), from Proto-Celtic *yātus (“ford”).

### Noun

aah f (genitive singular aah, plural aahghyn or aaghyn)
* (geography) ford

### References

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 áth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language