ha - synonyms, antonyms, definitions

ha

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of ha in English

English Online Dictionary. What means ha‎? What does ha mean?

Translingual

Symbol

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

English

Pronunciation

enPR: hä, IPA^(key): /hɑː/, [ha(ː)]
Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

Verb

(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

A representation of laughter.
An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
(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

Translations

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

Said when making a vigorous attack.
- 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!

References

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^(key): /ha/

Verb

ha (aorist hëngra, participle ngrënë); active voice

to eat
to gnaw, consume, wear out
(chess) to capture

Conjugation

Irregular verb

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَاء (ḥāʔ).

Noun

ha (definite accusative hanı, plural halar)

the Arabic letter ح

Declension

Bahnar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haː/

Verb

to open (mouth)

Bilba

Etymology

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

Numeral

four

Breton

Etymology

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

Conjunction

Synonyms

hag - used before a vowel

Burushaski

Noun

house

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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^(key): /hæ/

Pronoun

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^[2], 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

and
while

Synonyms

(before vowels) hag

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/, [hɑ], [ha]
Rhymes: -ar

Interjection

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

Rhymes: -aː

Symbol

Abbreviation of hectare.

Interjection

East Central German

Interjection

(Erzgebirgisch) yes

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/

Interjection

Ewe

Noun

alcohol
community
song

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [haː]

Interjection

ha?

Pardon?
isn't it?

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝]
Rhymes: -ɑ
Hyphenation^(key): ha

Interjection

ha (expressing laughter)

Anagrams

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/

Interjection

ha (exclamation of surprise or laughter)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a/

Verb

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

Galician

Alternative forms

hai
há (Reintegrationist)

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of haber

German

Pronunciation

Interjection

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

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

Alternative forms

'ha / ʔha (Yavapai form)

Noun

(Walapai) water

References

Werner Winter, Walapai (Hualapai) Texts

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈhɒ]
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

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

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

(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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haː/
Rhymes: -aː

Interjection

ha?

huh?, what?, come again?, I'm sorry?

Igbo

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /há/

Pronoun

há

(personal, plural) they, them, their

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/, [ha]

Etymology 1

Interjection

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

Etymology 2

From Dutch haa.

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

Synonyms

hec (Standard Malay)

Interlingua

Verb

present tense of haber

Italian

Alternative forms

à (obsolete)

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈa/^*, /ˈa/
Rhymes: -a

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of avere

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a/
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: ha

Interjection

ah! (usually ironic or sarcastic)
Synonym: ah

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

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

Kumeyaay

Pronunciation

Noun

water.

Lahu

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hundred

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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^(key): /haː/, [häː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a/, [äː]

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^(key): /ha/, [hä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a/, [äː]

Interjection

expressing joy or laughter: hurrah!, ha ha!

Related terms

hahae
hahahae

Latvian

Interjection

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/

Noun

ha m inan

The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

Interjection

ha?

huh?, what?

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [haː]

Verb

second-person singular imperative of haen

Mandarin

Romanization

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^(key): /ha/, [hɐ]

Interjection

Alternative form of hā (“hey!”)

Maricopa

Noun

water

References

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

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

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 4

Verb

Alternative form of haven (“to have”)

Namuyi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɦa˧]
Hyphenation: ha

Adverb

there (medial)

References

Štěpán Pavlík (2017) The Description of Namuzi Language‎^[5], Prague: Charles University (PhD Thesis), page 138
Li Jianfu (2017) A Descriptive Grammar of Namuyi Khatho spoken by Namuyi Tibetans‎^[6], Victoria: La Trobe University (PhD Thesis), page 595

Neapolitan

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of avé

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hafa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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^(key): /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^a13

Old Welsh

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/

Conjunction

Portuguese

Verb

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^(key): /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), 2006–2024

Slovene

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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), 2014–2024

Sotho

Conjunction

if
when

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈa/ [ˈa]
Rhymes: -a
Syllabification: ha
Homophone: a

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of haber

Anagrams

Sumerian

Romanization

Romanization of 𒄩 (ḫa)

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɑː/, (interjection also) /ha/, (verb, unsyncopated) /ˈhɑːˌva/

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.
(auxiliary) Used together with the supine form of a verb in the construction of perfect or pluperfect forms

Conjugation

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

ha! (same as the English)
what?, come again?, I'm sorry?, huh?

Anagrams

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /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

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

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

Tai Do

Numeral

five

References

Sầm Văn Bình (2018) Từ điển Thái–Việt (Tiếng Thái Nghệ An) [Tai–Vietnamese Dictionary (Nghệ An Tai)]‎^[7], Nghệ An: Nhà xuất bản Nghệ An

Tarantino

Verb

third-person singular present indicative of avere

Tooro

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha/

Pronoun

-ha (declinable)

which, what (interrogative pronoun)

Declension

References

Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[8], 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

Particle

(colloquial, dialectal, archaic) yes; yeah

Interjection

yea, uh-huh; understood, got it
oh yeah
yes? right? hmm?
I told you so, there it is
sorry? eh? huh? (What did you say?)

Synonyms

evet

Antonyms

yok
hayır

Etymology 2

From Arabic حَاء (ḥāʔ).

Noun

Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ح

Uzbek

Interjection

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Abbreviation of hecta (“hectare”).

Particle

(Southern Vietnam, colloquial) yes?; no?; m'kay?; amirite?

Interjection

(onomatopoeia) ha (laughter)

West Frisian

Verb

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

Wutunhua

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ha]

Etymology 1

Noun

Han Chinese

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

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^[9], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English haven, from Old English habban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan. Cognate with Scots heve (“have”)

Alternative forms

have

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hiː/, /hiːv/
Homophones: haeve, heeve, heve

Verb

ha (simple past hadh or had or ad)

have
- OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 16:
  'cha, for Ich ha, I have.

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^(key): /hiː/ (as if spelled haay)
Homophones: hi, hea, heigh, hye

Interjection

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^(key): /hà/

Interjection

hà!

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hā/

Verb

(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^(key): /hā/

Verb

(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^(key): /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^(key): /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^(key): /ha˨˦/
Tone numbers: ha¹
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^(key): /ha˧/

Noun

tooth

References

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

ha

ha

Translingual

Symbol

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

Etymology 2

Interjection

Usage notes

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Interjection

References

Further reading

See also

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Conjugation

See also

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Bahnar

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Bilba

Etymology

Numeral

Breton

Etymology

Conjunction

Synonyms

Burushaski

Noun

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

Chamorro

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Usage notes

See also

References

Cornish

Etymology

Conjunction

Synonyms

Danish

Pronunciation

Interjection

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Symbol

Interjection

East Central German

Interjection

Further reading

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Interjection

Ewe

Noun

Faroese

Pronunciation

Interjection

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation