"Ah" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Ahs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Ah (plural Ahs)
  1. Initialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: ampere-hour (extra: unit of charge)
    Sense id: en-Ah-en-noun-pnajToaM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 阿 Etymology templates: {{bor|en|zh|阿}} Chinese 阿 Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} Ah
  1. A Chinese prefix used with a shortened form of peoples' given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to nickname. Derived forms: Ah Beng, Ah Lian Translations (used in Chinese names): (aa³) (Chinese Cantonese), (ā) (Chinese Mandarin)
    Sense id: en-Ah-en-noun-BZvnmlcY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Pronoun

Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|||||||||||||||||||head=}} Ah, {{en-pronoun}} Ah
  1. Phonetic spelling of "I" in African American Vernacular English, popularized by Zora Neale Hurston
    Sense id: en-Ah-en-pron-DogRHMKN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pronouns Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 31 47 Disambiguation of English pronouns: 9 15 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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