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, archived from the original on 20 January 2009:
      “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”

Anagrams

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.

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

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
Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives
Nouns

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
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