See also: NAH and Nah.

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

nah

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Nahuan languages.

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Colloquial/unarticulated form of no. Compare yeah.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [næː], [nɑː], [nẽː]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: , -ɑː

Interjection edit

nah

  1. (informal) No.
    Synonym: naw
Translations edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Malay nah or Chinese (, take).

Interjection edit

nah

  1. (Manglish, Singlish) here! (when giving something).
    Nah, take this.Here, take this.

Anagrams edit

Big Nambas edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Oceanic *nago.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

nah

  1. face
  2. front
    iter a nah nəmah
    It is in front of the house.

References edit

  • Big Nambas Grammar, Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen (2010–), “*nago”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

German edit

Alternative forms edit

  • nahe (dated or very formal; also a preposition, which is formal too)

Etymology edit

From Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Compare English nigh. Doublet of nach.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

nah (strong nominative masculine singular naher, comparative näher, superlative am nächsten)

  1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense), close, nearby
    Antonym: fern
    Ich plane in naher Zukunft eine Reise nach Deutschland.
    I'm planning a trip to Germany in the near future.
    • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 573:
      Ellen stand am Fenster und hörte durch Herbstwind und Regen vom nahen Bahnhof herüber die Züge pfeifen.
      Ellen stood at the window and heard the trains whistling from the nearby station through autumn wind and rain.

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Adverb edit

nah

  1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense)
    Antonyms: weit, fern

Further reading edit

  • nah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • nah” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • nah” in OpenThesaurus.de

Indonesian edit

Pronunciation edit

Conjunction edit

nah

  1. Used in a narrative or an argument. It appears at the beginning of a sentence and suggests that the previous part of the narrative or argument is complete and clear and that the speaker is about to move on to the next part or step. The following are the closest equivalents in English.
    "Now" or "Okay, now..."
    Nah, itu yang tidak bisa kita ketahui
    Now, that's what we haven't been able to find out.
    Lalu saya dipecat dengan tidak hormat. Nah, ini yang minimbulkan perasaan bahwa itu keterlaluan.
    Then I was given a dishonourable dismissal. Now, this is what made me feel that they had over-stepped the mark.

Interjection edit

nah

  1. I told you so! See?! (at long last the penny's dropped).
    Nah! Makanya jangan makan buah banyak-banyak (a mother scolding a child who has a stomachache)
    See?! That's why you shouldn't eat a lot of fruit.

Malay edit

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

nah (Jawi spelling نه)

  1. here! (when giving something).
    Nah! Ambil ini.
    Here! Take this.

Further reading edit

Mokilese edit

Noun edit

nah

  1. (one's) child
  2. (one's) small object

Usage notes edit

Like many terms in Mokilese, nah has no non-possessive form; the third person singular possessive form (one's/his/her/its child) is therefore treated as the lemma.

Munsee edit

Particle edit

náh

  1. there
    Téet náh apúw.Maybe he is there.

References edit

  • O'Meara, John (2014), “náh”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, →ISBN

Old High German edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw. Cognates include Old English nēh, nēah and Old Norse .

Adjective edit

nāh

  1. close
  2. near
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Middle High German: nāch
    • Alemannic German: naach, nooch
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian:
      Mòcheno: no
    • Central Franconian: noh
    • German: nah
    • Luxembourgish: no

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.

Preposition edit

nāh (takes dative)

  1. towards
  2. after (time)
Descendants edit

Old Saxon edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhw. Cognates include Old English nēah and Old Norse .

Adjective edit

nāh (comparative nāhiro, superlative nāhist)

  1. near
  2. close
Declension edit


Descendants edit
  • Middle Low German: nâch,
    • German Low German: na
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhuriʀ(ō).

Preposition edit

nāh (takes dative)

  1. to, towards

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From either Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian на.

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

nah

  1. (informal) lo!, there it is!
    Nah bu kadar bir boyu vardı.
    Lo, it had a size that big.
  2. (vulgar) Makes the following word negative
    Nah yaparsın!
    You'll do shit!
  3. (vulgar) accompanies the fig sign (compare Russian кукиш)