mah

mah

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marshallese.

mah

1. (African-American Vernacular, Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of my.
   • 2014 June 26, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Streetpass Arena:

     Adventurer: 'AFTER YEARS OF ADVENTURING... I HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE STREETPASS ARENA. ONCE I REST MAH HOOFS, I'M GOING TO RECORD MY SECRET BATTLE TECHNIQUE.'

From Cantonese 嘛 (maa3, “of course!”).

• ma

• (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA^(key): /mɑː˧/, /-˦/

mah (Manglish, Singlish)

1. Asserts that something is self-evident.

   It's only temporary mah. ― It's only temporary, after all.

   • 1998 April 24, viken, “tcs shows”, in sg.rec.tv, Usenet:

     Singlish is acceptable in Singapore mah

• what, hor, leh, meh, lor, lah

• Low, Ee Ling; Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction, →ISBN
• Lim, Lisa; Wee, Lionel (2004), “Reduplication and discourse particles”, in Singapore English: A grammatical description, →ISBN, page 125

• HAM, HMA, Ham, MHA, ham

From Proto-Aslian *səmaaʔ (“human”).

mah

1. human
2. people

• Mah Meri

Borrowed from Dutch maag.

mah (first-person possessive mahku, second-person possessive mahmu, third-person possessive mahnya)

1. stomach

• IPA^(key): /ˈma/, which may be followed by [h] or [ʔ] or trigger syntactic gemination[1].
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: mah

mah

1. an expression of doubt or uncertainty
2. an expression of disapproval or resignation

• ahm

Back-formation from mahati, from Proto-Slavic *maxati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).

• IPA^(key): /mâːx/

mȃh m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑х)

1. swing, wave, sweep (motion)
2. moment, instant

   U taj mah. ― At that instant.

• (moment): čȁs
• (moment): trȅn

• “mah” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.

• IPA^(key): /máːx/

mȃh m inan

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)

• “mah”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

mah

1. Romanization of 𒈤 (maḫ)

mah

1. past tense marker

   Lòkëwe mah utènink nta.

   Yesterday, I went to town.

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “mah”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

Onomatopoeic.

mah

1. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.