# haa
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese はあ (hā).

### Interjection

haa
* (Japanese fiction) A sigh.
* (Japanese pornography) The sound of heavy breathing when sexually aroused.

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* ha, heen, hoh, hä, häbä, hè

### Etymology

From Old High German hāben, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną. Compare German haben, Dutch hebben, West Frisian hawwe, English have, Icelandic hafa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑː/

### Verb

haa (third-person singular simple present hät or het, past participle ghaa or khaa, past subjunctive hett, auxiliary haa)
* to have
* (impersonal, transitive) Used to indicate that something exists (often with a certain property and/or in a certain location). Usually translated as there is/are or there exist(s)
    Synonym: gee
    s'hät solangs hät ― first come, first served (literally, “it has as long as it has”)
* (auxiliary, taking a past participle) to have (used in forming the perfect tense)
    Coordinate term: sii

#### Usage notes

The realisation of the third-person singular present form varies between /hæt/ (in Zurich and northeastern Switzerland), /hɛt/ (western Switzerland, also St Gallen and Appenzell) and /het/ (in Schwyz, Uri, Zug and other parts of central Switzerland), with various spellings to reflect these forms.

## Comanche
### Interjection

haa
* yes

#### Antonyms

* kee

## Estonian
### Noun

haa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

## Finnish
### Etymology

Variant of ha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑː/, [ˈhɑ̝ː]
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Hyphenation: haa

### Interjection

haa
* ha (expressing triumph or discovery)

### Further reading

* “haa”, 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

* aah, aha

## Fula
### Adverb

haa
* until

#### Dialectal variants

* sey (Adamawa)
* faa (Liptaako, Macina)

## Huichol
### Noun

haa
* water

## Kapingamarangi
### Etymology

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

### Numeral

haa
* four

## Lutuv
### Pronunciation

IPA: [hāā]

### Verb

haa
* to pick up (from the ground)

### References

* Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

## Mandinka
### Interjection

haa
* yes

## Navajo
### Postposition

haa
* about him/her/it/them
* to him/her/it/them

#### Inflection
### Adverb

haa
* what, how

#### Alternative forms

* daa

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* heewe (Mooring)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian hebba, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną. Cognates include West Frisian hawwe and Saterland Frisian hääbe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Föhr-Amrum) [haː], (Sylt) [hoː]

### Verb

haa
* (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) to have

#### Conjugation
## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

haa
* obsolete typography of hå

### Verb

haa
* obsolete typography of hå

## Rennellese
### Etymology

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

### Numeral

haa
* four

## Somali
### Adverb

haa
* yes

## Tlingit
### Pronunciation

IPA: [hàː]

### Pronoun

haa
* our

## Võro
### Noun

haa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.