# bah
## Translingual
### Symbol

bah
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bahamian Creole.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Bahamian Creole terms

## English
### Etymology 1

Early 19th century, probably borrowed from French bah.

#### Alternative forms

* baugh (archaic)

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /bæ/, /bɑː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æ, -ɑː
* Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

#### Interjection

bah
* (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 301:"To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor.
** 1992, April Kihlstrom, Dangerous Masquerade:Templeton looked over the assembled servants speculatively, then shrugged. "Bah!" he said. "They're of no use to me. Come, Andrew, a word with you upstairs."

##### Synonyms

* (expressing contempt): pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, poh, pish; see also Thesaurus:bah
* (expressing disgust): bleh, ick, ych a fi; see also Thesaurus:yuck

##### Derived terms

* bah humbug
* pooh-bah, poobah

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* baa

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /bɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

#### Noun

bah (plural bahs)
* Alternative spelling of baa.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:`There, cut his throat quick. Where is the saucer?' `The Goat! the Goat! the Goat! Give me the blood of my black goat! I must have it, don't you see I must have it? Oh! oh! oh! give me the blood of the goat.' At this moment a terrified bah! announced that the poor goat had been sacrificed, and the next minute a woman ran up with a saucer full of blood.

#### Interjection

bah
* Alternative spelling of baa.

### Etymology 3
#### Particle

bah
* (Manglish, Singlish) Alternative spelling of ba

### See also

* sis boom bah
* (Singlish particles): ah, hor, lah, leh, liao, lor, mah, meh, one, sia, what

### Anagrams

* ABH, AHB, BHA, HAB, HBA, Hab, Hab., hab

## Dutch
### Etymology

Exclamatory

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bah

### Interjection

bah
* An exclamation of disapproval, contempt or disgust: bah, yuck

## French
### Etymology

Not well-attested in texts, but of imitative origin nevertheless, similar to bayer (“to gape”). Sense 2 is a denasalized version of "ben".

### Pronunciation

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

### Interjection

bah
* No.
    Bah, bah, bah !No, no, no!
* An exclamation to fill space, often used as an intensifier; well, err, um
    Synonym: ben
    Tu veux jouer aussi ? ― Bah, ouais.
    Do you want to play too? ― Well, yeah.

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* hab

## German
### Alternative forms

* bäh

### Etymology

Exclamatory

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba(h)/, /baː/, /ba.aː/
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

bah
* an exclamation of disgust: yuck, etc.
    Synonyms: igitt, iiih, pfui, üäh

## Hokkien

* For pronunciation and definitions of bah – see 肉 (“meat; flesh”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 肉).

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bəah/

### Noun

bah
* flood (overflow of water)

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈbah/ [ˈbah]
* Rhymes: -ah
* Syllabification: bah

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay bah, from Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

#### Noun

bah (uncountable)
* (dialectal) Synonym of banjir (“flood”)

##### Derived terms

* bah betina
* bah jantan

### Etymology 2

From Dutch bah.

#### Interjection

bah
* Synonym of idih

### Etymology 3

Perhaps from Malay bah.

#### Interjection

bah
* (dialectal) an exclamation of intimacy

### Further reading

* “bah” 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.

## Italian
### Etymology

Exclamatory

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba/, which may be followed by [h] or [ʔ] or trigger syntactic gemination.
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: bah

### Interjection

bah
* indicates astonishment, resignation and despise; usually used after noticing or hearing something you don't like or you don't know what to think about, to avoid commenting or giving an answer to a question

#### See also

* mah

### References

* ↑ bah in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* bah in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bah/
* Rhymes: -ah

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq. Cognate with Sundanese caah.

#### Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به, plural bah-bah)
* flood (overflow of water)
    Synonym: banjir

##### Descendants

* Indonesian: bah

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به)
* Short for abah.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به)
* Short for babah.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

bah (Jawi spelling به)
* Abbreviation of bahasa.

### Etymology 5
#### Preposition

bah (Jawi spelling به)
* Alternative form of bawah

## Portuguese
### Interjection

bah!
* (Rio Grande do Sul) Alternative form of bá

## Simalungun Batak
### Noun

bah
* water
* river

### References

* Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 18.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Possibly from Latin vāh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba/ [ˈba]
* Rhymes: -a

### Interjection

bah
* indicates disdain or unbelief

#### See also

* qué va

#### Further reading

* “bah”, 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

## Zou
### Verb

bah
* bet

#### References

* http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

## Zyphe
### Verb

bah
* to owe

### References

* Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎