# nah
## Translingual
### Symbol

nah
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Nahuan languages.

## English
### Etymology 1

Colloquial/unarticulated form of no. Compare yeah.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [næː], [nɑː], [nẽː]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æ, -ɑː

#### Interjection

nah
* (informal) No.
    Synonym: naw

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay nah.

#### Interjection

nah
* (Manglish, Singlish) here! (when giving something).
    Nah, take this. ― Here, take this.

### See also

* nah mean

### Anagrams

* han, anh., ahn, Hàn, Han, HNA

## Big Nambas
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *nago.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naɣ/

### Noun

nah
* face
* front
    iter a nah nəmahIt is in front of the house.

### References

* Big Nambas Grammar, Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nago”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## German
### Alternative forms

* nahe (dated or very formal; also a preposition, which is formal too)

### Etymology

From Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Compare English nigh. Doublet of nach.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naː/, [naː]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aː

### Adjective

nah (strong nominative masculine singular naher, comparative näher, superlative am nächsten)
* near (in space or time or in an abstract sense), close, nearby
    Antonym: fern
    Ich plane in naher Zukunft eine Reise nach Deutschland.I'm planning a trip to Germany in the near future.
** 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 573:
    Ellen stand am Fenster und hörte durch Herbstwind und Regen vom nahen Bahnhof herüber die Züge pfeifen.Ellen stood at the window and heard the trains whistling from the nearby station through autumn wind and rain.

#### Derived terms

* hautnah
* körpernah
* nah am Wasser gebaut
* Nahkampf
* praxisnah
* regierungsnah
* zeitnah

### Adverb

nah
* near (in space or time or in an abstract sense)
    Antonyms: weit, fern

### Further reading

* “nah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “nah” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “nah” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nah/

### Conjunction

nah
* Used to conclude a speech or train of thought; now; so; right; okay
    Nah, itu yang tidak bisa kita ketahui. ― Now, that's what we haven't been able to find out.
    Lalu saya dipecat dengan tidak hormat. Nah, ini yang minimbulkan perasaan bahwa itu keterlaluan.Then I was given a dishonourable dismissal. Now, this is what made me feel that they had over-stepped the mark.

### Interjection

nah
* I told you so! See?! (at long last the penny's dropped).
    Nah! Makanya jangan makan buah banyak-banyak (a mother scolding a child who has a stomachache)
       See?! That's why you shouldn't eat a lot of fruit.

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nah/
* Rhymes: -nah, -ah

### Interjection

nah (Jawi spelling نه)
* here! (when giving something).
    Nah! Ambil ini.Here! Take this.

### Further reading

* “nah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mokilese
### Noun

nah (construct nihn)
* (one's) child
* (one's) small object

#### Usage notes

Like many terms in Mokilese, nah has no non-possessive form; the third person singular possessive form (one's/his/her/its child) is therefore treated as the lemma.

#### Derived terms

* nihn li
* nihn woal

## Munsee
### Particle

náh
* there
    Téet náh apúw. ― Maybe he is there.

### References

* O'Meara, John (2014) “náh”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, →ISBN

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɑːx/

### Verb

nāh
* first/third-person singular present indicative of nāgan

## Old High German
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Cognates include Old English nēh, nēah and Old Norse ná.

#### Adjective

nāh
* close
* near

##### Derived terms

* nāhī

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: nāch
** Alemannic German: naach, nooch
** Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: nå
    Mòcheno: no
** Central Franconian: noh
** German: nah
** Luxembourgish: no
** Yiddish: (via the adverb nāhunt) נאָענט (noent)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.

#### Preposition

nāh (takes dative)
* towards
* after (time)

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: nāh
** German: nach
** Luxembourgish: no
** Yiddish: נאָך (nokh)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw. Cognates include Old English nēah and Old Norse ná.

#### Adjective

nāh (comparative nāhiro, superlative nāhist)
* near
* close

##### Descendants

* Middle Low German: nâch, nâ
** German Low German: na

##### See also

* nāho

### Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhuriʀ(ō).

#### Preposition

nāh (takes dative)
* to, towards

## Turkish
### Etymology

From either Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian на.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɑh/

### Interjection

nah
* (informal) lo!, there it is!
    Nah bu kadar bir boyu vardı.Lo, it had a size that big.
* (vulgar) Makes the following word negative
    Nah yaparsın!You'll do shit!
* (vulgar) accompanies the fig sign (compare Russian кукиш)