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1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Nahuan languages.
2. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nahuatl.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nahuatl terms

Colloquial/unarticulated form of no +‎ -uh. Compare yeah = yes +‎ -uh.

• IPA^(key): [næː], [nɑː], [naː], [nẽː]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æ, -ɑː

nah

1. (informal) No.

   Synonym: naw

   Nah, I'd win.

Borrowed from Malay nah. Unrelated to nah mean.

nah

1. (Manglish, Singlish) here! (when giving something).

   Nah, take this. ― Here, take this.

• nah mean

• han, anh., ahn, Hàn, Han, HNA

• (Myanmar) /na˦˧/

nah

1. your (2nd-person singular possessive pronoun)

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 84

From Proto-Oceanic *nago.

• IPA^(key): /naɣ/

nah

1. face
2. front

   iter a nah nəmah

   It is in front of the house.

• Big Nambas Grammar, Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nago”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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

Inherited from Middle High German nāh, from Old High German nāh. Compare English nigh. Doublet of nach.

• IPA^(key): /naː/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -aː

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.

• nach

nah

1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense)

   Antonyms: weit, fern

• “nah”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “nah” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “nah” in OpenThesaurus.de

Inherited from Malay nah, probably onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /nah/

nah

1. Used to conclude a speech or train of thought; now; so; right; okay

   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.

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.

nah

1. (Low Prussian) alternative form of nao (“to, towards”)

Probably onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /nah/
• Rhymes: -nah, -ah

nah (Jawi spelling نه)

1. here! (when giving something).

   Nah! Ambil ini.

   Here! Take this.

• "nah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

nah (construct nihn)

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

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.

• nihn li
• nihn woal

• Harrison, Sheldon P.; Albert, Salich Y. (1977), Mokilese-English Dictionary‎^[3], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 168

náh

1. there

   Téet náh apúw. ― Maybe he is there.

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

• IPA^(key): /nɑːx/
• Rhymes: -ɑːx

nāh

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of nāgan

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw, from *nēhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).

nāh

1. close
2. near

• nāhī

• Middle High German: nāch
  • Alemannic German: naach, nooch
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: nå

    Mòcheno: no

  • Central Franconian: noh
  • German: nah
  • Luxembourgish: no
  • Yiddish: (via the adverb nāhunt) נאָענט (noent)

From Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz.

nāh (takes dative)

1. towards
2. after (time)

• Middle High German: nāh
  • German: nach
  • Luxembourgish: no
  • Yiddish: נאָך (nokh)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw, from *nēhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).

nāh (comparative nāhiro, superlative nāhist)

1. near
2. close

• Middle Low German: nâch, nâ
  • German Low German: na
  • Plautdietsch: no

• nāho

From Proto-West Germanic *nāhuriʀ(ō).

nāh (takes dative)

1. to, towards

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

• IPA^(key): /nɑh/

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)