ha

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Translingual

Symbol

ha

  1. hectare

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Audio (US)(file)

Verb

ha

  1. (archaic) Alternate spelling of a4

Pronoun

ha

  1. (neologism) A gender-neutral, third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
    "Ha laughed"

Interjection

ha

  1. A representation of laughter.
    Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.
  2. An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
    Ha! Checkmate!

Translations

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ed-a-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”), with the preservation of the laryngeal[1]. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euw (compare Ashkun au (“bread”), Sanskrit अवय (āvaya, “to eat”)).

Pronunciation

Verb

ha (first-person singular past tense hëngra, participle ngrënë)

  1. I eat
  2. I gnaw, consume, wear out
  3. (chess) I capture

Conjugation

See also

References

  1. ↑ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V. Orel, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2000

Bahnar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/

Verb

ha 

  1. to open (mouth)

Bilba

Etymology

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

Numeral

ha

  1. (cardinal) four

Breton

Conjunction

ha

  1. and

Synonyms

  • hag - used before a vowel

Burushaski

Noun

ha

  1. house

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

ha

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of haver

Cornish

Conjunction

ha

  1. and
    Yma hwans dhymm a diwes hag avel.
    I want a drink and an apple.
  2. while
    hag ev owth oberi
    while he was working

Synonyms

  • (before vowels) hag

Danish

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

ha

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

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aː

Symbol

ha

  1. Abbreviation of hectare.

Interjection

ha

  1. ha

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha/

Interjection

ha

  1. ah

Ewe

Noun

ha

  1. alcohol
  2. community
  3. pig
  4. song

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [haː]

Interjection

ha?

  1. Pardon?
  2. isn't it?

Finnish

Interjection

ha

  1. ha (expressing laughter)

Galician

Alternative forms

Verb

ha

  1. third-person singular present indicative of haber

Guaraní

Conjunction

ha

  1. and

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

Alternative forms

Noun

ha

  1. (Walapai) water

References

  • Werner Winter, Walapai (Hualapai) Texts

Hungarian

Etymology

A lexicalized inflected form. Its h- stem is the same as in hogy, its -á ending is a lative case suffix. The original form was probably há, where the ending later shortened to -a.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒ]
  • Audio(file)

Conjunction

ha

  1. if (introduces conditional clause)

Derived terms

Interjection

ha

  1. (poetic) (indicates anger or surprise)

References

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/
  • Rhymes: -aː

Interjection

ha?

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

Interlingua

Verb

ha

  1. prensent tense of haber

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a/
  • Rhymes: -a

Verb

ha

  1. third-person singular present indicative of avere

Interjection

ha!

  1. ah! (usually ironic or sarcastic)

Japanese

Romanization

ha

  1. Rōmaji transcription of は
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ハ

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

hā (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the letter H.
Coordinate terms

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

Pronunciation

Interjection

ha

  1. hurrah!, ha ha! (onomatopoeia expressing joy or laughter)

Latvian

Interjection

ha

  1. ha

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haː/

Verb

ha

  1. second-person singular imperative of haen

Mandarin

Romanization

ha

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hā.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of há.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hà.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maricopa

Noun

ha

  1. water

References

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”).

Pronoun

ha

  1. (chiefly eastern Southern dialectal) Alternative form of he

References

Etymology 2

Pronoun

ha

  1. Alternative form of heo

References

Etymology 3

From Old English hīe, hī.

Pronoun

ha

  1. Alternative form of he

References

Neapolitan

Verb

ha

  1. Third-person singular present indicative of the verb of avé

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hafa.

Verb

ha (imperative ha, present tense har, simple past hadde, past participle hatt)

  1. to have

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse hafa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɑː/

Verb

ha (present tense har, past tense hadde, past participle hatt, passive infinitive havast, present participle havande, imperative ha)

  1. have (possess, own)
    Eg har ein blå bil.
    I have a blue car.
  2. have (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) 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.

References

Novial

Verb

ha (past had, active participle hant)

  1. (auxiliary) have/has, added to the front of a verb to make it perfect

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)

  1. Alternative form of a
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, Wb. 6a13
      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.

Portuguese

Verb

ha

  1. Obsolete spelling of há

Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : ha
    Counting form : kaha

Etymology

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

Numeral

ha

  1. (cardinal) four

Usage notes

When counting, use kaha.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a/
  • Homophone: a

Verb

ha

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of haber.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of haber.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɑː/
  • 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)

  1. (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.
  2. (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
Alternative forms
  • (dated): hava
  • hafva (obsolete)
  • hafwa (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Interjection

ha

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

See also

Tarantino

Verb

ha

  1. third-person singular present indicative of avere

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Particle

ha

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

Interjection

ha

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

Synonyms

Antonyms

Uzbek

Interjection

ha

  1. yes

West Frisian

Verb

ha

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