# ह

| ह | U+0939, &#2361; DEVANAGARI LETTER HA |
| ← स [U+0938] | Devanagari | ऺ → [U+093A] |

## Translingual
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦə/, /hə/ (may vary by language)

### Letter

ह (ha)
* the Devanagari script’s voiced aspirate guttural consonant

#### See also

Ligatures:
* ह्म (hma): ह + म
* ह्य (hya): ह + य

## Car Nicobarese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xa/

### Letter

ह (h)
* Used to represent the [x] sound in Car.

## Dhivehi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hə]

### Letter

ह • (ha)
* The first consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari

## Hindi
### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /ɦə/, [ɦɐ]

### Letter

ह • (ha)
* the thirty-third consonant in Hindi

#### See also

* Devanagari script letters: अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़

## Marathi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦə/
* Audio:(file)

### Letter

ह • (ha)
* The thirty-second consonant in Marathi.

## Nepali
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɦʌ]
* Phonetic Devanagari: ह

### Letter

ह • (ha)
* The thirty-third consonant in Nepali.

## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* হ (Assamese script)
* ᬳ (Balinese script)
* হ (Bengali script)
* 𑰮 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀳 (Brahmi script)
* ဟ (Burmese script)
* હ (Gujarati script)
* ਹ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌹 (Grantha script)
* ꦲ (Javanese script)
* 𑂯 (Kaithi script)
* ಹ (Kannada script)
* ហ (Khmer script)
* ຫ (Lao script)
* ഹ (Malayalam script)
* ᡥᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘮 (Modi script)
* ᠾᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧎 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐴 (Newa script)
* ହ (Odia script)
* ꢲ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆲 (Sharada script)
* 𑖮 (Siddham script)
* හ (Sinhalese script)
* 𑪂 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚩 (Takri script)
* ஹ (Tamil script)
* హ (Telugu script)
* ห (Thai script)
* ཧ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒯 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨱 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /ɦɐ/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /ɦɐ/

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

ह • (ha) stem, m
* a form of Shiva or Bhairava
* water
* cipher (symbol meaning 0)
* blood
* death
* sky
* fear
* knowledge, perception
* Vishnu
* heaven
* paradise
* moon
* war
* horse
* pride
* physician
* cause, reason, motive
* laughter

##### Declension

* ¹Vedic

#### Noun

ह • (ha) stem, n
* the supreme Lord
* pleasure, delight, happiness
* weapon
* (of a gem) sparkling, shining
* calling

##### Declension

* ¹Vedic

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, slay”).

#### Adjective

ह • (ha) stem (root हन्)
* (at the end of a compound) killing, striking, slaying

##### Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

### Etymology 3

Variant of घ (gha), हि (hi).

#### Particle

ह • (ha)
* emphasizes the preceding word; surely, of course, certainly
* an emphatic particle, often used by itself as a filler word or expletive

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “ह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1286, column 1.

## Shina
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha~ɦa/

### Letter

ह (h)
* Used to represent the [h~ɦ] sound in Shina.