bah

bah

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Bahamian Creole terms

Early 19th century, probably borrowed from French bah.

• baugh (archaic)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bæ/, /bɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æ, -ɑː
• Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

bah

1. (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."

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

• bah humbug
• pooh-bah, poobah

• baa

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

bah (plural bahs)

1. Alternative spelling of baa (the cry of a sheep or goat).
   • 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.

From Mandarin 吧 (ba).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): [pɑ˨], [b̥-]

bah

1. (Manglish, Singlish, rare) Used for emphasis; softens a suggestion.

   I think you should go see a doctor ba.

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

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

Exclamatory

• IPA^(key): /bɑ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bah

bah

1. An exclamation of disapproval, contempt or disgust: bah, yuck

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

• IPA^(key): /ba/

• Audio:

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bah

1. No.

   Bah, bah, bah !

   No, no, no!

2. 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.

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

• hab

• bäh

Exclamatory

• IPA^(key): /ba(h)/, /baː/, /ba.aː/

• Audio:

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bah

1. an exclamation of disgust: yuck, etc.

   Synonyms: igitt, iiih, pfui, üäh

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bəah/

bah

1. flood (overflow of water)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbah]
• Hyphenation: bah

• From Malay bah, from Proto-Malayic *baah, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *baah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *baah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.
• The relation to Proto-Mon-Khmer *bah (“to flow out”) is questionable.

bah (first-person possessive bahku, second-person possessive bahmu, third-person possessive bahnya)

1. flood.

   Synonym: banjir

From Dutch bah.

bah

1. an exclamation of scorn, disgust, contempt

From Malay bah.

bah

1. an exclamation of intimacy

• “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.

Exclamatory

• IPA^(key): /ˈba/, which may be followed by [h] or [ʔ] or trigger syntactic gemination.^[1]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: bah

bah

1. 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

• mah

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

• IPA^(key): /bah/
• Rhymes: -bah, -ah

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

• به

bah (Jawi spelling به, plural bah-bah)

1. flood (overflow of water)

• banjir / بنجير

• Indonesian: bah

Shortened form of abah, from Proto-Malayic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

• abah
• aba
• ابه
• اب
• به

bah (Jawi spelling به)

1. Alternative form of abah

Shortened form of babah, from baba, variant of bapa.

• bapa
• baba
• babah
• bapanda
• bapai
• bapak
• bapang
• papa
• باڤ
• بابا
• بابه
• به
• باڤندا
• باڤاي
• باڤق
• باڤڠ
• ڤاڤ

bah (Jawi spelling به)

1. Alternative form of bapa

Abbreviation of bahasa, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā, “language”).

• bahasa
• بهاس
• به

bah (Jawi spelling به)

1. Abbreviation of bahasa.

Shortened form of bawah, from Proto-Malayic *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaq, from Proto-Austronesian *babaq.

• bawah
• باوه
• به

bah (Jawi spelling به)

1. Alternative form of bawah

bah!

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) Alternative form of bá

bah

1. water
2. river

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

Possibly from Latin vāh.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba/ [ˈba]
• Rhymes: -a

bah

1. indicates disdain or unbelief

• qué va

• “bah”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

bah

1. bet

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