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bah

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bah"

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bah

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

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English

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Etymology 1

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Early 19th century, probably borrowed from French bah.

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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."
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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bah (plural bahs)

  1. Alternative spelling of baa.
    • 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.

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bah

  1. Alternative spelling of baa.

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bah

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) Alternative spelling of ba

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Dutch

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bah

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

French

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

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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.

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German

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Exclamatory

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bah

  1. an exclamation of disgust: yuck, etc.
    Synonyms: igitt, iiih, pfui, üäh

Hokkien

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

Iban

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Etymology

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

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bah

  1. flood (overflow of water)

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Malay bah, from Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

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bah (plural bah-bah)

  1. (dialectal) Synonym of banjir (“flood”)
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From Dutch bah.

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bah

  1. Synonym of idih

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Perhaps from Malay bah.

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bah

  1. (dialectal) an exclamation of intimacy

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Exclamatory

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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

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  1. ^ bah in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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

Malay

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq. Cognate with Sundanese caah.

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bah (Jawi spelling به, plural bah-bah)

  1. flood (overflow of water)
    Synonym: banjir
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  • Indonesian: bah

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bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. Short for abah.

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Noun

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bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. Short for babah.

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bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. Abbreviation of bahasa.

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bah (Jawi spelling به)

  1. Alternative form of bawah

Portuguese

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bah!

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

Simalungun Batak

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Noun

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bah

  1. water
  2. river

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Spanish

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Possibly from Latin vāh.

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bah

  1. indicates disdain or unbelief

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Zou

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bah

  1. bet

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Zyphe

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bah

  1. to owe

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  • Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎[1]
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