# hache
## Aragonese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈat͡ʃe/
* Rhymes: -atʃe
* Syllabification: ha‧che

### Noun

hache m
* The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be / be alta, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, i larga, ca, ele, eme, ene, o, pe, cu, erre, ese, te, u, ve baixa, ve dople, xe, i griega, zeta

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French hache, from Old French hache, borrowed from Frankish *happjā (“axe, hatchet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʃ/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* (Louisiana) IPA: /haʃ/
* Rhymes: -aʃ
* Homophones: ache, aches, hachent, haches, hash
* Hyphenation: hache

### Noun

hache f (plural haches)
* axe

#### Derived terms

* enterrer la hache de guerre

### Verb

hache
* inflection of hacher:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhat͡ʃ(ə)/

#### Noun

hache (plural hachez)
* A war axe; an axe used as a weapon.
* (rare) An axe used as a tool.

##### Related terms

* hachet

##### References

* “hache, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-05.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French haschiee, hachïe.

#### Alternative forms

* hacche, hachee

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhat͡ʃeː/

#### Noun

hache (plural haches)
* (rare) sorrow, distress.

##### Descendants

* Yola: hachee, haachee

##### References

* “hachẹ̄, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-05.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

hache
* Alternative form of hacche

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhaʃə/

### Noun

hache f (plural haches)
* axe (bladed weapon)

#### Descendants

* French: hache

## Norman
### Etymology 1

From Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”).

#### Noun

hache f (plural haches)
* (Jersey) axe

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hash.

#### Noun

hache f (plural haches)
* (Jersey) hash sign, number sign

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* hace

### Etymology

From Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kop- (“to strike, beat”).

### Pronunciation

* (classical) IPA: /ˈhat͡ʃə/
* (late) IPA: /ˈhaʃə/

### Noun

hache oblique singular, f (oblique plural haches, nominative singular hache, nominative plural haches)
* axe (bladed weapon)

#### Derived terms

* hachete

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: haiche
* Champenois: haiche (Troyen), hate (Rémois)
* Middle French: hache
** French: hache
* Gallo: haïche
* Poitevin-Saintongeais: hache
* Walloon: hatche
* → Iberia:
** Asturian: hacha, hachu
** Old Catalan: atxa
** Old Galician-Portuguese: acha
*** Portuguese: acha
** Old Spanish: facha
*** Spanish: hacha
*** → Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
**** Galician: facha
* → Italy:
** Calabrian: haccia
** Italian: azza, accia (archaic)
* → Middle English: hache

#### References

* ↑ “atxa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈat͡ʃe/ [ˈa.t͡ʃe]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atʃe
* Syllabification: ha‧che

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca.

#### Noun

hache f (plural haches)
* The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

##### Usage notes

Nominally, hache always takes the usual feminine articles la and una (la hache, una hache). This makes it an exception to the rule according to which feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ frequently take the articles el and un otherwise reserved for masculine nouns (e.g., el alma, un alma).

##### Derived terms

* el verbo echar echa la hache por la ventana

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

hache
* inflection of hachar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, ge, hache, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, cu, ere, ese, te, u, ve / uve, ve doble / uve doble, equis, ye, zeta

### Further reading

* “hache”, 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

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* atse

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish hache, the Spanish name of the letter H/h. Doublet of eyts.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔat͡ʃe/ [ˈʔaː.t͡ʃɛ]
** IPA: (no yod coalescence) /ˈʔatse/ [ˈʔat̪.sɛ]
* Rhymes: -at͡ʃe, (no yod coalescence) -atse
* Syllabification: ha‧che

### Noun

hache (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)
* (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter H/h, in the Abecedario
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) eyts, (in the Abakada alphabet) ha

#### Derived terms

* atseng pinatutunog
* atseng walang-tunog

### Further reading

* “hache”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018