# آه
## Arabic
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Interjection

آهِ or آهٍ or آهًا • (ʔāhi or ʔāhin or ʔāhan)
* ah, aw, ooh, ouch (expression of physical or emotional pain)
    آهِ مِنْ آلَامِ ٱلرَّأْسِ ― ʔāhi min ʔālāmi r-raʔsi ― Ah, my head hurts.

#### Derived terms

* تَأَوَّهَ (taʔawwaha)

### Noun

آه • (ʔāh) m
* pain (physical or emotional)
    لَمْ يَبْقَ لِي مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ إِلَّا الْآهُ.lam yabqa lī mina l-ḥayāti ʔillā al-ʔāhu.All that I have left of life is the pain.

#### Declension
## Egyptian Arabic
### Alternative forms

* اه (alternative spelling)

### Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Japanese ああ (ā, “yeah”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [(ʔ)ɑː(h)]

### Interjection

آه • (ā)
* yes, yeah (response to a question)
    Synonyms: ايوه (aywa), حاضر (ḥāḍir) (polite)
* A grunt expressing pain.

#### See also

* نعم (naʕam, “yes (reponse to a call)”)

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaːh/

### Particle

آه • (ʔāh)
* yes
    Synonyms: أيه (ʔayyah, ʔayyih), إيه (ʔiyyah), واه (wāh), إيه (ʔīh), آيه (ʔāyyih), نعام (nʕām)
    Antonyms: لا (lā), لَأّ (laʔʔ), لَأَّ (laʔʔa), (humorous) لَأَّيْن (laʔʔayn), (humorous) لَأّتَيْن (laʔʔtayn)

## Pashto
### Noun

آه • (āh) m
* sigh

### Interjection

آه • (āh)
* ah

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔɑːh]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑːʱ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑːʱ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔɔː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔɒːʱ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔɔʱ]

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic: sound of sighing.

#### Noun

آه • (âh)
* sigh [since 11th century]
    آه طولانی ― âh-e tulâni ― long sigh
** c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 128:داشتی صد دلبری هر دم که آهی کردمی آه پنداری ترا ای شوخ کانها یاد نیستdāštī sad dilbarī har dam ki āhē kardamē āh pindārī tu-rā ay šōx k-ānhā yād nēstEvery time I let out one sigh, you used to have a hundred comforts; You will think of the sigh, o shameless one who does not remember them!(Classical Persian transliteration)

##### Derived terms

* آه کشیدن (âh kešidan, “to sigh”)

##### Descendants

(These descendants may also be parallel onomatopoeic formations.)
* → Azerbaijani: ah
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: आह (āh)
    Urdu: آه
* → Ottoman Turkish: آه
** Turkish: ah
* → Pashto: آه (āh)

#### Interjection

آه • (âh)
* ah, alas [since 10th century]

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare Japanese ああ (ā, “yeah”) and colloquial Arabic آه (ʔāh, “yes”).

#### Interjection

آه • (āh) (Dari)
* (colloquial) yes
    Synonyms: آری (ārē), بلی (balē)
* (informal) yeah, mm-hmm, uh-huh

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Soqotri
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ/

### Etymology 1

Perhaps cognate to Arabic يَا (yā, “vocative particle”).

#### Particle

آه (ɛ)
* O; hey; you; vocative particle

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

آه (ɛ)
* interjection of assertion

### References

* Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 374

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaː/, [ʔɑː]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Particle

آه • (ʔā)
* yes
    Synonyms: أيوه (ʔaywa), (formal) نعم (naʔam)
    Antonym: لأ (laʔ)
    See also: مبلا (mbala)