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"name": "head"
},
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"3": "possessive adjective",
"4": "mah",
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},
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"name": "en-pron"
}
],
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{
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{
"extra": "(particularly Southern) accent",
"word": "I"
},
{
"extra": "(particularly Southern) accent",
"word": "most often indicating that the speaker is using a Scottish or American"
}
],
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"English links with manual fragments",
"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"English pronunciation spellings"
],
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"Pronunciation spelling of I, most often indicating that the speaker is using a Scottish or American (particularly Southern) accent."
],
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling#English"
],
[
"I",
"I#Pronoun"
],
[
"Scottish",
"Scottish#English"
],
[
"American",
"American#English"
],
[
"accent",
"accent#English"
]
],
"tags": [
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"personal",
"pronoun",
"pronunciation-spelling"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ɑː/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/En-us-ah.ogg/En-us-ah.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/En-us-ah.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:ah"
],
"word": "ah"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English particles",
"English terms borrowed from Hokkien",
"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms borrowed from Teochew",
"English terms derived from Hokkien",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Teochew",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English two-letter words",
"English_personal_pronouns",
"Manglish",
"Singapore English",
"Singlish",
"en:Music",
"zom:Birds",
"zom:Poultry"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nan-hbl",
"3": "啊",
"tr": "--a"
},
"expansion": "Hokkien 啊 (--a)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nan-tws",
"3": "啊",
"tr": "a⁷"
},
"expansion": "Teochew 啊 (a⁷)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "啊",
"tr": "a"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 啊 (a)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "particle",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ah",
"name": "en-part"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "particle",
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{
"word": "is it"
},
{
"word": "izzit"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "hor"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "know"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "lah"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "leh"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "liao"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "lor"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "mah"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "meh"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "one"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "sia"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "what"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You're dyslexic ah? ― So you're dyslexic?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2020 December 4, Notdumb, “Liddat is safe distance ah?”, in SG Talk, archived from the original on 2020-04-18",
"text": "Only 2 ft apart considered safe ah?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Marks a tag question prompting the listener to clarify something."
],
"links": [
[
"tag question",
"tag question#English"
],
[
"clarify",
"clarify#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011 October 23, Rachel Chang, “LifeStyle”, in The Sunday Times, page 15",
"text": "See how lor. Who’s going ar?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used for emphasis; reinforces a short wh-question."
],
"links": [
[
"emphasis",
"emphasis#English"
],
[
"wh-question",
"wh-question#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Don't drink and drive ah...",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2010 April 18, Colin Goh, “LifeStyle”, in The Sunday Times, page 24",
"text": "Sure, ah? Thanks, man, pai seh.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Emphasizes the need for absolute confirmation or acknowledgment."
],
"links": [
[
"confirmation",
"confirmation#English"
],
[
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgment#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The drilling upstairs ah, non-stop leh.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A filler word separating the topic of a sentence and its comment."
],
"links": [
[
"filler word",
"filled pause#English"
],
[
"topic",
"w:Topic and comment"
]
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A filler word used to ascertain the continued attention of the listener."
],
"tags": [
"Manglish",
"Singlish"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɑː˨˦/",
"note": "Senses 2‒5"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɑː/",
"note": "Senses 2‒5"
},
{
"ipa": "[ä˨]",
"note": "Sense 1"
}
],
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{
"word": "ar"
},
{
"word": "har"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:ah"
],
"word": "ah"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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