Ah

Ah

1. (taxonomy) Abbreviation of Aetokthonos hydrillicola.

Ah (plural Ahs)

1. Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).

Borrowed from Chinese 阿.

Ah

1. A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.

   Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.

   • 1893 July 4, “Chinese Work in British Columbia”, in Missionary Leaflet, volume 9, number 10, page 2:

     I was called, at about an hour's notice, to take Ah Quai (the girl rescued in the spring), and go with Mr. Gardiner to Seattle, and give evidence in the case of one of the women brought over on the same ship with Ah Quai.

Ah

1. Phonetic spelling of "I" in African American Vernacular English, popularized by Zora Neale Hurston

• “Ah”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “Ah”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• HA, Ha, ha, ha'

Ah

1. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I.

• Ai

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 24.