# ha

| ㏊ | U+33CA, &#13258; SQUARE HA |
| ← ㏉ [U+33C9] | CJK Compatibility | ㏋ → [U+33CB] |

## Translingual
### Symbol

ha
* hectare
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hausa.

## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: hä, IPA: /hɑː/, [ha(ː)]
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

ha
* (archaic) Alternative form of a (“have”)

### Etymology 2

Attested early 14th century, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Danish ha, Dutch ha, Finnish ha, Hungarian ha, Latin ha, Latvian ha, Swedish ha.

#### Interjection

ha
* A representation of laughter.
    Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.
* An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
    Ha! Checkmate!
* (archaic) An exclamation of grief.
* (dated) A sound of hesitation: er, um.

##### Usage notes

* When used to express laughter, the word may be reduplicated in order to suggest expressive or sincere laughter. A single ha! (virtually always with an exclamation mark) may be used to express mild amusement or merely a polite reaction to something intended to be funny. In modern and informal usage, reduplication tends to be without spaces. See haha for more information on those forms.

##### Related terms

* ah
* aha
* funny ha-ha
* hah
* haha
* ha-ha
* ha-ha funny
* ha ha Herman
* ha ha only serious
* ha-ha pigeon
* haw
* he
* heh
* ho
* hoo-ha
* muahahaha
* yeeha

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

ha
* Said when making a vigorous attack.
** 1844 September, E.M. Walley, “Eighteen Months in Russia”, in The Covenant: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Cause of Odd-fellowship, volume 3, number 9, page 395:"That's well. Well," cried he, now for my turn. Ha! a hit! a hit!"
** 1988, Albemarle - Issues 3-7, page 49:I hit a cross-court forehand. “Ha ha haa. Great! Say, usin' cross-courts and angles like that is how O'Bramowitts beat Riggs."
** 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a):
    Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
** 2008, Sheryl Foulk Rogers-Ramirez, Look What God Did for Our Marriage, page 37:Ha! Take that, you ugly, stupid devil, you.
** 2009, Elizabeth George, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner:'I'm armed, you lot. And if you think you can take me alive . . . Ha! Take that! And that! And that!'

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “ha”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* “ha”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### See also

* Altamaha-ha
* ha-cha-cha
* kig ha farz

### Anagrams

* A"H, AH, Ah, ah

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *eda, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”), with the preservation of the laryngeal. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (compare Ashkun au (“bread”), Sanskrit अवय (avaya, “to eat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/

### Verb

ha (aorist hëngra, participle ngrënë); active voice
* to eat
** 2018 December 19, Helfen aus Dank, “i Samuelit 28:25”, in Bibël‎, BookRix, →ISBN, page 450:I vuri këto ushqime Saulit dhe shërbëtorëve të tij, dhe ata i hëngrën; pastaj u ngritën dhe u nisën po atë natë.And she gave them to Saul and his servants, and they ate (them). They got up and departed that same night.
* to gnaw, consume, wear out
* (chess) to capture

#### Conjugation

* Irregular verb
* Show compound tenses:

### See also

* hahem
* haje
* pi

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ha”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 140

### Further reading

* “ha”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “ha”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَاء (ḥāʔ).

### Noun

ha (definite accusative hanı, plural halar)
* the Arabic letter ح

#### Further reading

* “ha” in Obastan.com.

## Bahnar
### Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *haː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *haʔ; cognate with Khmer ហា (haa) and Vietnamese há.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haː/

### Verb

ha
* to open (mouth)

## Bilba
### Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

### Numeral

ha
* four

## Breton
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *(h)a, from Proto-Indo-European *ad-gʰe (compare with Cornish ha, Welsh a, ag).

### Conjunction

ha
* and

#### Synonyms

* hag - used before a vowel

## Burushaski
### Noun

ha
* house

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈa]
* Homophone: a

### Verb

ha
* third-person singular present indicative of haver

## Chamorro
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia. Cognates include Indonesian ia and Hawaiian ia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hæ/

### Pronoun

ha
* he, she

#### Usage notes

* ha is used solely as a subject of a transitive verb, while gueʼ is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or an object of a transitive verb.
* Even when the subject is defined by a noun (either common or proper) , it should be succeeded by ha.
    I lahi ha sangani ham ― The man told us
    Si Maria ha hatsa gueʼ ― Maria lifted him

#### References

* Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *(h)a, from Proto-Indo-European *ad-gʰe (compare with Breton ha, Welsh a, ag).

### Conjunction

ha
* and
    Yma hwans dhymm a diwes hag avel.I want a drink and an apple.
* while
    hag ev owth oberiwhile he was working

#### Synonyms

* (before vowels) hag

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/, [hɑ], [ha]
* Rhymes: -ar

### Interjection

ha
* ha! (an exclamation of triumph or discovery)
* (onomatopoeia) ha (a representation of laughter), often repeated

#### Synonyms

* (onomatopoeia): he, hi, ho, hæ, hø, hå, tihi

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aː

### Symbol

ha
* Abbreviation of hectare.

### Interjection

ha
* ha

## East Central German
### Interjection

ha
* (Erzgebirgisch) yes

### 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 56:

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

ha
* ah

## Ewe
### Noun

ha
* alcohol
* community
* song

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [haː]

### Interjection

ha?
* Pardon?
* isn't it?

## Finnish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ɑ
* Hyphenation: ha

### Interjection

ha
* ha (expressing laughter)

### Further reading

* “ha”, 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

* ah

## French
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/
* Audio:(file)

#### Interjection

ha
* ha (exclamation of surprise or laughter)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a/

#### Verb

ha
* (rare, obsolete) third-person singular present indicative of havoir

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* hai
* há (Reintegrationist)

### Verb

ha
* third-person singular present indicative of haber

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

ha
* Expresses laughter.
    Synonyms: hi, ho
* Expresses triumph or discovery.
    Synonyms: ah, aha, he, hey, hui
* Expresses surprise or a sudden sensation.
    Synonyms: ah, ach, ei, huh, huch, oh
* Expresses hesitation.
    Synonyms: ah, hm

## Guaraní
### Conjunction

ha
* and

## Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
### Alternative forms

* 'ha / ʔha (Yavapai form)

### Noun

ha
* (Walapai) water

### References

* Werner Winter, Walapai (Hualapai) Texts

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -hɒ

### Etymology 1

Lexicalization of the h- stem of hogy +‎ -á (lative case suffix). The original form was probably há, where the ending later shortened to -a.

#### Conjunction

ha
* if (introducing a conditional clause; often coupled with akkor (“then”))
* when, once
    Ha meglátod a parkot, fordulj jobbra. ― When you see the park, turn right.

##### Derived terms

* akárha
* aligha
* habár
* hacsak
* hogyha
* mintha
* néha
* noha
* valaha
* ha a hegy nem megy Mohamedhez, Mohamed megy a hegyhez
* ha nincs ló, jó a szamár is
* ha nincs otthon a macska, cincognak az egerek
* minden jó, ha a vége jó
* úgy szép az élet, ha zajlik

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

ha
* (poetic) expressing astonishment, fright, or shock
* (regional) drawing attention to some soft sound
** 1857, János Arany, A walesi bárdok (The Bards of Wales), translated by Péter Zollman:
    Ha, ha! Mi zúg? … mi éji dal / London utcáin ez?
       [untranslated] what is the din / In London's streets so late?

### References

* ↑ ha in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* (if, whether, when): ha in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (interjection expressing astonishment, fright, or shock): ha in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([regional] interjection drawing attention to some soft sound): ha in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haː/
* Rhymes: -aː

### Interjection

ha?
* huh?, what?, come again?, I'm sorry?
    Ha, hvað sagðirðu?I'm sorry, what did you say?

## Igbo
### Alternative forms

* fá

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /há/

### Pronoun

há
* (personal, plural) they, them, their
    Ha na-efe Chukwu.They worship God.

#### See also

| | | dependent | independent | object/possessive |
| Singular | first | m, a/e- ... -m | m, mụ | m, mụ |
| Singular | second | ị, i | ngị, gị | gị |
| Singular | third | ọ, o | ya | ya |
| Plural | first | anyị | anyị | anyị |
| Plural | second | ụnụ | ụnụ | ụnụ |
| Plural | third | ha, a/e- ... -ha | ha | ha |
| Indefinite | Indefinite | a/e | - | - |

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/, [ha]

### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

ha
* expression of excitement or ridicule: ha!
* expression of relief: whew!
* expression of surprise: huh?

### Etymology 2

From Dutch haa.

#### Noun

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

##### Synonyms

* hec (Standard Malay)

##### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

### Further reading

* “ha” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Interlingua
### Verb

ha
* present tense of haber

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* à (obsolete)

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa/$^*$, /ˈa/
* Rhymes: -a

#### Verb

ha
* third-person singular present indicative of avere

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: ha

#### Interjection

ha
* ah! (usually ironic or sarcastic)
    Synonym: ah

### Further reading

ha in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* ah

## Japanese
### Romanization

ha
* The hiragana syllable は (ha) or the katakana syllable ハ (ha) in Hepburn romanization.

## Kumeyaay
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

ha
* water.

## Lahu
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-r-gja.

#### Noun

ha
* hundred

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ya(p).

#### Verb

ha
* to winnow

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈhaː/, [ˈhäː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa/, [ˈäː]

#### Noun

hā f (indeclinable)
* The name of the letter H.

##### Synonyms

* *acca (Vulgar Latin)

##### Coordinate terms

* (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

#### References

* Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈha/, [ˈhä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa/, [ˈäː]

#### Interjection

ha
* expressing joy or laughter: hurrah!, ha ha!

##### Related terms

* hahae
* hahahae

## Latvian
### Interjection

ha
* ha

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/

### Noun

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

### Interjection

ha?
* huh?, what?

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

## Luxembourgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [haː]

### Verb

ha
* second-person singular imperative of haen

## Mandarin
### Romanization

ha
* Nonstandard spelling of hā.
* Nonstandard spelling of há.
* Nonstandard spelling of hǎ.
* Nonstandard spelling of hà.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Maori
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/, [hɐ]

### Interjection

ha
* Alternative form of hā (“hey!”)

## Maricopa
### Noun

ha
* water

### References

* Lynn Gordon, Maricopa Morphology and Syntax (1986, →ISBN, page 364

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Pronoun

ha
* (chiefly eastern Southern dialectal) Alternative form of he (“he”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

ha
* Alternative form of heo (“she”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

ha
* Alternative form of he (“they”)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

ha
* Alternative form of haven (“to have”)

## Namuyi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɦa˧]
* Hyphenation: ha

### Adverb

ha
* there (medial)

### References

* Štěpán Pavlík (2017) The Description of Namuzi Language‎, Prague: Charles University (PhD Thesis), page 138
* Li Jianfu (2017) A Descriptive Grammar of Namuyi Khatho spoken by Namuyi Tibetans‎, Victoria: La Trobe University (PhD Thesis), page 595

## Neapolitan
### Verb

ha
* third-person singular present indicative of avé

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse hafa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑː/

### Verb

ha (imperative ha, present tense har, simple past hadde, past participle hatt, present participle haende)
* to have
* to suffer

#### Derived terms

* inneha

### References

* “ha” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* hava, have (obsolete)
* hå (dialectal)

### Etymology

From Old Norse hafa. Akin to English have.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑː/

### Verb

ha (present tense har, past tense hadde, past participle hatt, passive infinitive havast, present participle havande, imperative ha)
* to have, to possess, to own
    Eg har ein blå bil. ― I have a blue car.
* (auxiliary) have; Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
    Eg har vore her sidan i dag tidleg. ― I have been here since this morning.
    Eg hadde allereie ete. ― I had already eaten.
* (reflexive, colloquial) to have sex
    dei har seg ― they are having sex
    ho har seg med han ― she is having sex with him

### References

* “ha” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Irish
### Determiner

ha (3rd person possessive) (triggers lenition in the masculine and neuter singular, an unwritten prothetic /h/ in the feminine singular, and eclipsis in the plural)
* Alternative form of a
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, Wb. 6$^a$13
    Is deidbir ha áigthiu, ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin.It is reasonable to fear him [lit. "his fearing is reasonable"], for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword.

## Old Welsh
### Alternative forms

* hac

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/

### Conjunction

ha
* and

## Portuguese
### Verb

ha
* Obsolete spelling of há.

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

### Verb

-há (infinitive guhá, perfective -hâye)
* to give

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xâ/

### Noun

hȁ (Cyrillic spelling ха̏)
* expresses laughter
* expresses triumph or discovery
* tag question, huh

### References

* “ha”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xáː/, /xá/

### Noun

hȃ or hȁ
* expresses laughter
* expresses triumph or discovery

### References

* “ha”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Sotho
### Conjunction

ha
* if
* when

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa/ [ˈa]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ha
* Homophone: a

### Verb

ha
* third-person singular present indicative of haber

### Anagrams

* ah

## Sumerian
### Romanization

ha
* Romanization of 𒄩 (ḫa)

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑː/, (interjection also) /ha/, (verb, unsyncopated) /ˈhɑːˌva/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Apocopic form of hava, from Old Swedish hava, from Old Norse hafa, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”).

#### Verb

ha (present har, preterite hade, supine haft, imperative ha)
* (transitive) To have; to possess, or to have as a property; to come into possession of something concrete or abstract.
    John har två katter.John has two cats.
    Den slipsen har en fruktansvärd färg.That tie has a terrible colour.
    Vi hade riktigt trevligt igår kväll.We had a really nice time last night.
* (auxiliary) Used together with the supine form of a verb in the construction of perfect or pluperfect forms
    Jenny har köpt en hund.Jenny has bought a dog.

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### Alternative forms

* hava (dated)
* hafva (obsolete)
* hafwa (obsolete)

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare Danish ha, Finnish häh, Dutch ha, hè, English ha, huh.

#### Interjection

ha
* ha! (same as the English)
* what?, come again?, I'm sorry?, huh?
    Ha? Vad sade du?What? What did you say?

#### See also

* jaha
* nähä

### Anagrams

* ah

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ha/ [hɐ]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ha

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly from:
* Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ) or 乎 (hôⁿ / hô͘), according to Manuel (1948)
* English huh? and English hah!.

#### Alternative forms

* ah
* a

#### Interjection

ha (Baybayin spelling ᜑ)
* (informal) interrogative particle, used to express inquiry
    Synonyms: ano? (“what?”), po?, ho?
* (informal) speculative particle, used to express doubt, disbelief
    Synonyms: ano?! (“what?!”), a?! / ah?!
* (informal) exclamatory particle, used to express wonder, surprise, excitement
    Synonym: a! / ah!
* (informal) imperative final particle, used to soften requests or commands to have someone do something
    Ganoon, ha?!Like that, ok?!
    Kain ka na, ha.Eat already, please.
    Tulog na, ha?Sleep already, will you?

### Etymology 2

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜑ (ha).

#### Noun

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

##### See also

* haha

### Further reading

* “ha”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 101

## Tai Do
### Numeral

ha
* five

### References

* Sầm Văn Bình (2018) Từ điển Thái–Việt (Tiếng Thái Nghệ An) [Tai–Vietnamese Dictionary (Nghệ An Tai)]‎, Nghệ An: Nhà xuất bản Nghệ An

## Tarantino
### Verb

ha
* third-person singular present indicative of avere

## Tooro
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/

### Pronoun

-ha (declinable)
* which, what (interrogative pronoun)

#### Declension
### References

* Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 410-411

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic [Term?] (“yes”). Compare Azerbaijani hə (“yes”), Turkmen hawa (“yes”), Uzbek ha (“yes”), Uyghur ھەئە (he'e, “yes”), Kazakh иә (iä, “yes”), Southern Altai эйе (eye, “yes”), Tatar әйе (äye, “aye, yes, yea”), Bashkir эйе (eye, “yes”), Chuvash ээх (eeh, “yes”).

#### Alternative forms

* he

#### Particle

ha
* (colloquial, dialectal, archaic) yes; yeah
    Geliyor musun? — Ha, geliyorum.Are you coming? — Yes, I'm coming.

#### Interjection

ha
* yea, uh-huh; understood, got it
    Yürüdüm, yürüdüm... — Ha. — ...sonra da eve gittim.I walked, I walked... — Uh-huh. — ...then I went home.
* oh yeah
    Ha, sen bize çay getirecektin.Oh yeah, you were going to bring us some tea.
* yes? right? hmm?
    Üniversiteye gidiyorsun, ha?You're going to college, right?
* I told you so, there it is
    Ha. Böyle olacağını biliyordum.I told you so. I knew this would happen.
* sorry? eh? huh? (What did you say?)
    Ha? Duymadım.Huh? I didn't hear.

##### Synonyms

* evet

##### Antonyms

* yok
* hayır

### Etymology 2

From Arabic حَاء (ḥāʔ).

#### Noun

ha
* Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ح

## Uzbek
### Interjection

ha
* yes
    Synonym: bale

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [haː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [haː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [haː˧˧]

### Noun

ha
* Abbreviation of hecta (“hectare”).

### Particle

ha
* (Southern Vietnam, colloquial) yes?; no?; m'kay?; amirite?
    Đẹp ghê ha ?Beautiful, isn't it?

### Interjection

ha
* (onomatopoeia) ha (laughter)

## West Frisian
### Verb

ha
* alternative form of any present-tense form of hawwe except for the third-person singular

## Wutunhua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ha]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ha
* Han Chinese
    da niren-men mu hai-la ra cek-de-ge ra da ha ra cek-lio ze-li.Then, as for wives, as for taking a wife, [our ancestors] took Chinese [wives] as well.(Quoted in Sandman, p. 193)

##### Derived terms

* hahua (“Chinese language”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ha
* father
    Synonym: aba
    Coordinate terms: ana, ma

### References

* Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
* Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

## Yola
### Etymology 1

From Middle English haven, from Old English habban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan. Cognate with English ha.

#### Alternative forms

* have

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haː/, /haːv/
* Homophone: haeve

#### Verb

ha (simple past hadh)
* have
** OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 16:
    'cha, for Ich ha, I have.
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:Ha deight ouse var gabble, tell ee zin go t'glade.You have put us in talk, 'till the sun goes to set.
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:Hea pryet ich mought na ha chicke or hen,He prayed I might not have chicken nor hen,

##### Derived terms

* 'cha (“ich have”)
* nad (“had not”)
* th'ast (“thou hast”)
* waad (“we had”)
* y'ast (“you hast”)

### Etymology 2

From Middle English hay, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haː/

#### Interjection

ha
* hey
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:Ha-ho! be mee coshes, th'ast ee-pait it, co Joane;Hey-ho! by my conscience, you have paid it, quoth John;

##### Derived terms

* ha-ho

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hà/

#### Interjection

hà!
* what a pity; an interjection used to denote displeasure or disappointment
    Synonym: hàà

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hā/

#### Verb

ha
* (transitive) to graze, to scrape (something), to erode, to abrade
    Synonym: bó
    ìṣó ha mi lọ́wọ́ ― The nail grazed my hand

##### Derived terms

* ìha
* fiha

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hā/

#### Verb

ha
* (intransitive, copulative) to shine brightly
    Synonym: là
    òṣùpá ha ― The moon shines brightly

##### Usage notes

* Always used in the context of moonlight

##### Derived terms

* ìha

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /há/

#### Verb

há
* (transitive) to jam or wedge something into some space
* (intransitive) to become jammed, gagged, or barricaded
    ẹrán há mi léyín ― The meat became jammed in my teeth

##### Usage notes

* Regularly occurs with instrumental verbs such as fi, gbé, and mú.

##### Derived terms

* ìhá
* háfún
* hámọ́
* hágágá
* hágádígádí

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /há/

#### Verb

há
* (transitive) to allocate, to distribute, to share, to divide things (among a group)
    Synonym: pín
    wọ́n há ẹran kálé ― They distributed the meat among the members of the household

##### Derived terms

* ìhá
* háfún
* háká

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ha˨˦/
* Tone numbers: ha$^1$
* Hyphenation: ha

### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

ha (1957–1982 spelling ha)
* huh? what?

### Etymology 2
#### Particle

ha (1957–1982 spelling ha)
* Used at the end of a sentence to express an imperative.
* Used at the end of a question used as a retort.
* Used after an item when listing.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

ha (Sawndip form 𢩹, 1957–1982 spelling ha)
* (dialectal) to intimidate; to threaten; to bully

## Zou
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha˧/

### Noun

ha
* tooth

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65