آه

Onomatopoeic. From it the root ء و ه (ʔ-w-h).

آهِ or آهٍ or آهًا • (ʔāhi or ʔāhin or ʔāhan)

1. ah, aw, ooh, ouch (expression of physical or emotional pain)

   آهِ مِنْ آلَامِ ٱلرَّأْسِ

   ʔāhi min ʔālāmi r-raʔsi

   Ah, my head hurts.

• تَأَوَّهَ (taʔawwaha)

آه • (ʔāh) m

1. pain (physical or emotional)

   لَمْ يَبْقَ لِي مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ إِلَّا الْآهُ.

   lam yabqa lī mina l-ḥayāti ʔillā al-ʔāhu.

   All that I have left of life is the pain.

Onomatopoeic. Compare Japanese ああ (ā, “yeah”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː/

آه • (ʔāh)

1. yes, yeah

   Synonym: ايوه

• نعم

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaːh/

آه • (ʔāh)

1. yes

   Synonyms: أيه (ʔayyah, ʔayyih), إيه (ʔiyyah), واه (wāh), إيه (ʔīh), آيه (ʔāyyih), نعام (nʕām)

   Antonyms: لا (lā), لَأّ (laʔʔ), لَأَّ (laʔʔa), (humorous) لَأَّيْن (laʔʔayn), (humorous) لَأّتَيْن (laʔʔtayn)

آه • (āh) m

1. sigh

آه • (āh)

1. ah

Readings
Classical reading?	āh
Dari reading?	āh
Iranian reading?	âh
Tajik reading?	oh

Onomatopoeic: sound of sighing.

Dari	آه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	оҳ

آه • (âh)

1. sigh [since 11th century]

   آه طولانی ― âh-e tulâni ― long sigh

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 128:

     داشتی صد دلبری هر دم که آهی کردمی
     آه پنداری ترا ای شوخ کانها یاد نیست

     dāštī sad dilbarī har dam ki āhē kardamē
     āh pindārī tu-rā ay šōx k-ānhā yād nēst

     Every time I let out one sigh, you used to have a hundred comforts;
     You will think of the sigh, o shameless one who does not remember them!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

(These descendants may also be parallel onomatopoeic formations.)

آه • (âh)

1. ah, alas [since 10th century]

Onomatopoeic. Compare Japanese ああ (ā, “yeah”) and colloquial Arabic آه (ʔāh, “yes”).

Dari	آری
Iranian Persian	آره
Tajik	оре

آه • (āh) (Dari)

1. (colloquial) yes

   Synonyms: آری (ārē), بلی (balē)

2. (informal) yeah, mm-hmm, uh-huh

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

Perhaps cognate to Arabic يَا (yā, “vocative particle”).

آه (ɛ)

1. O; hey; you; vocative particle

آه (ɛ)

1. interjection of assertion

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 374

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː/, [ʔɑː]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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آه • (ʔā)

1. yes

   Synonyms: أيوه (ʔaywa), (formal) نعم (naʔam)

   Antonym: لأ (laʔ)

   See also: مبلا (mbala)