ह

See also: हूँ, हृ, हे, है, and हैं

ह	U+0939, ह DEVANAGARI LETTER HA

← स
[U+0938]

Devanagari

ऺ →
[U+093A]

Translingual

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɦə/, /hə/ (may vary by language)

Letter

ह (ha)

the Devanagari script’s voiced aspirate guttural consonant

Car Nicobarese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xa/

Letter

ह (h)

Used to represent the [x] sound in Car. [1]

Dhivehi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hə]

Letter

ह • (ha)

The first consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari

Hindi

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦə/, [ɦɐ]

Letter

ह • (ha)

the thirty-third consonant in Hindi

Marathi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɦə/
Audio: (file)

Letter

ह • (ha)

The thirty-second consonant in Marathi.

Nepali

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɦʌ]
Phonetic Devanagari: ह

Letter

ह • (ha)

The thirty-third consonant in Nepali.

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

হ (Assamese script)
ᬳ (Balinese script)
হ (Bengali script)
𑰮 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀳 (Brahmi script)
ဟ (Burmese script)
હ (Gujarati script)
ਹ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌹 (Grantha script)
ꦲ (Javanese script)
𑂯 (Kaithi script)
ಹ (Kannada script)
ហ (Khmer script)
ຫ (Lao script)
ഹ (Malayalam script)
ᡥᠠ (Manchu script)
𑘮 (Modi script)
ᠾᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
𑧎 (Nandinagari script)
𑐴 (Newa script)
ହ (Odia script)
ꢲ (Saurashtra script)
𑆲 (Sharada script)
𑖮 (Siddham script)
හ (Sinhalese script)
𑪂 (Soyombo script)
𑚩 (Takri script)
ஹ (Tamil script)
హ (Telugu script)
ห (Thai script)
ཧ (Tibetan script)
𑒯 (Tirhuta script)
𑨱 (Zanabazar Square script)

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɐ/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɦɐ/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ह • (ha) stem, m

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of ह
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	हः (haḥ)	हौ (hau) हा¹ (hā¹)	हाः (hāḥ) हासः¹ (hāsaḥ¹)
accusative	हम् (ham)	हौ (hau) हा¹ (hā¹)	हान् (hān)
instrumental	हेन (hena)	हाभ्याम् (hābhyām)	हैः (haiḥ) हेभिः¹ (hebhiḥ¹)
dative	हाय (hāya)	हाभ्याम् (hābhyām)	हेभ्यः (hebhyaḥ)
ablative	हात् (hāt)	हाभ्याम् (hābhyām)	हेभ्यः (hebhyaḥ)
genitive	हस्य (hasya)	हयोः (hayoḥ)	हानाम् (hānām)
locative	हे (he)	हयोः (hayoḥ)	हेषु (heṣu)
vocative	ह (ha)	हौ (hau) हा¹ (hā¹)	हाः (hāḥ) हासः¹ (hāsaḥ¹)

¹Vedic

Noun

ह • (ha) stem, n

the supreme Lord
pleasure, delight, happiness
weapon
(of a gem) sparkling, shining
calling

Declension

Neuter a-stem declension of ह
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	हम् (ham)	हे (he)	हानि (hāni) हा¹ (hā¹)
accusative	हम् (ham)	हे (he)	हानि (hāni) हा¹ (hā¹)
instrumental	हेन (hena)	हाभ्याम् (hābhyām)	हैः (haiḥ) हेभिः¹ (hebhiḥ¹)
dative	हाय (hāya)	हाभ्याम् (hābhyām)	हेभ्यः (hebhyaḥ)
ablative	हात् (hāt)	हाभ्याम् (hābhyām)	हेभ्यः (hebhyaḥ)
genitive	हस्य (hasya)	हयोः (hayoḥ)	हानाम् (hānām)
locative	हे (he)	हयोः (hayoḥ)	हेषु (heṣu)
vocative	ह (ha)	हे (he)	हानि (hāni) हा¹ (hā¹)

¹Vedic

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, slay”).

Adjective

ह • (ha) stem (root हन्)

(at the end of a compound) killing, striking, slaying

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 3

Variant of घ (gha), हि (hi).

Particle

ह • (ha)

emphasizes the preceding word; surely, of course, certainly
an emphatic particle, often used by itself as a filler word or expletive

References

Monier Williams (1899) “ह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1286, column 1.

Shina

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ha~ɦa/

Letter

ह (h)

Used to represent the [h~ɦ] sound in Shina. [2]