gah

See also: gäh, and GAH

English

Interjection

gah

1. Expressing exasperation or annoyance.
   • 2009 January 20, Alison Godfrey, quoting Bronwyn Lovejoy, “Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook”, in Herald Sun‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2009:

     “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”

Anagrams

• HGA, Hag., agh, gha, hag

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گاه.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟɑh]

Conjunction

gah

1. Used to denote repeated alternation of enumerated actions, events or objects.

   Gah belə deyir, gah elə.

   Sometimes he says this, sometimes that.

   i.e., He keeps changing his opinion.

   Gah sola gedir, gah sağa, özü bilmir hara getsin.

   He walks left, then he walks right, he doesn't know where to go himself.

   i.e. He keeps turning to different directions.

Further reading

• “gah” in Obastan.com.

Chipewyan

Etymology

Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

References

• Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

Navajo

Etymology

Cognate with Tsuut'ina nitłʼadigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, Tlingit g̱áx̱ and South Slavey gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

Derived terms

• gahtsoh (hare)

Pali

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit गृह् (gṛh).

Root

gah (Pali name gaha)

1. to seize, to take

Usage notes

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.

Derived terms

Verbs

• gaṇhati
• gaṇhāti
• niggaṇhati
• niggaṇhāti

 

Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives

• gahetabba
• gahita
• gahīta
• niggahita
• niggahīta

 

Nouns

• aggahaṇa
• gaha

 

Sekani

Etymology

Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

References

• Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *gax̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kà(h)]
• Hyphenation: gah

Noun

gah (stem -gah-)

1. rabbit

Inflection

Possessive inflection of gah (-gahé)

		singular	plural
1st person		segahé	naxegahé
2nd person		negahé
3rd person	1)	—	gigahé
	2)	megahé	gogahé
4th person		yegahé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedegahé	kedegahé
	unsp.	degahé
reciprocal		—	ɂełegahé
indefinite		ɂegahé
areal		gogahé
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99

Western Apache

Noun

gah

1. rabbit