haa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "haa"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Hän / Han with a as a placeholder.

Symbol

haa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Hän.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hän terms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese はあ (hā).

Interjection

haa

1. (Japanese fiction) A sigh.
2. (Japanese pornography) The sound of heavy breathing when sexually aroused.

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• ha, heen, hoh, hä, häbä, hè

Etymology

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German habēn (akin to Old Saxon hebbian, Old Norse hafa (Swedish hava/ha), Old Frisian habba, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban), Old English habban), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grasp”). Cognates include Bavarian håbn, Yiddish האָבן (hobn), Dutch hebben, West Frisian hawwe, English have, Danish have, Icelandic hafa.

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /hɒː/

Verb

haa (auxiliary haa)

1. to have
2. (with dummy subject es, transitive) Used to indicate that something exists (often with a certain property and/or in a certain location). Usually translated as there is/are or there exist(s)

   Synonym: gee

   s'hät solangs hät ― first come, first served (literally, “it has as long as it has”)

3. (auxiliary, taking a past participle) to have (used in forming the perfect tense)

   Coordinate term: sii

Conjugation

• See the references for more information.

Conjugation of ha – City of Zürich

infinitive		ha
past participle		gha
auxiliary		haa
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
		i(ch)	du	er/si/es	mir	ihr	si
indicative	present	han, ha	häsch	hät	händ	händ	händ
subjunctive	past	hett, hetti	hettisch	hett, hetti	hetted	hetted	hetted
imperative	affirmative	—	heb	—	—	händ	—

Conjugation of ha – City of Bern

infinitive		ha
past participle		gha
auxiliary		haa
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
		i(g)	du	är/si/es	mir	dir	si
indicative	present	ha, han	hesch	het	hei	heit	hei
subjunctive	past	hätt, hätti	hättisch	hätt, hätti	hätte	hättet	hätte
imperative	affirmative	—	heb	—	—	heit	—

Derived terms

• kei Brot haa
• satthaa

See also

short verbs (in Zürich German)

• cho (“come”)
• fah (“catch”), ahfah (“begin”)
• gah (“go”)
• geh (“give”)
• gscheh (“happen”)
• gseh (“see”)
• ha (“have”)
• lah (“let”)
• neh (“take”)
• schlah (“hit”)
• si (“be”)
• stah (“stand”)
• tue (“do”)
• zieh (“pull”)

Further reading

• Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz:
  • Band III 46, digital (1sg pres., infinitive, participle)
  • Band III 47 (plural pres.)
  • Band III 48, digital (2/3sg pres. and Konj. II)
  • Band III 49, digital (1/3sg Konj. I)
• “ha”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2026
• Albert Weber, Jacques M. Bächtold (1961), “haa”, in Zürichdeutsches Wörterbuch für Schule und Haus (in German), 1st edition, Zürich: Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, page 105
• Rudolf Suter (1992), Baseldeutsch-Grammatik (in German), Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, →ISBN, page 93

Comanche

Interjection

haa

1. yes

Antonyms

• kee

Estonian

Noun

haa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

Finnish

Etymology

Variant of ha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː/, [ˈhɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Syllabification^(key): haa
• Hyphenation^(key): haa

Interjection

haa

1. ha (expressing triumph or discovery)

Further reading

• “haa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Anagrams

• aah, aha

Fula

Adverb

haa

1. until

Dialectal variants

• sey (Adamawa)
• faa (Liptaako, Macina)

Huichol

Noun

haa

1. water

Kapingamarangi

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

haa

1. four

Lutuv

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *haa, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *sV-wa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hāā]

Noun

haa

1. tooth

Verb

haa

1. to pick up (from the ground)

References

• Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022), “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[2], volume 3, number 1, archived from the original on 17 June 2026

Mandinka

Interjection

haa

1. yes

Navajo

Postposition

haa

1. fourth-person of baa

Interrogative particle

haa

1. what, how

   Haa lá yinidzaa?

   What happened to you?

   Haa yinílyé?

   What's your name? Literally, “how are you called?”

2. Used with comparative neuter adjectival verbs to ask the degree of something.

   Haa nízah?

   How far is it?

   Haa níłdáás?

   How heavy is it?

3. With yitʼé, to ask the condition of something.

   Haash ńtʼé?

   How are you? (in health)

   Atiinígííshąʼ haa yitʼé kʼad?

   How's the road now? Literally, “About the road, how it is?”

   1. Also used to ask the degree of neuter adjectival verbs that do not have comparative form.

      Abeʼshąʼ haitʼéego sido kʼad?

      How hot is the milk now?

      Tłʼóoʼdishąʼ haitʼéego deeskʼaaz kʼad?

      How cold is it outside right now?

Usage notes

This interrogative particle can be used alone or with the interrogative enclitics lá or -shąʼ.

Haa, when preceded by a verb that begins with yi-, contracts to hai-.

haa yitʼé ⭢ haitʼé

Alternative forms

• daa
• háá-
• há-

Derived terms

• haaʼí

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• heewe (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian hebba, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną. Cognates include West Frisian hawwe and Saterland Frisian hääbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Föhr-Amrum) [haː], (Sylt) [hoː]

Verb

haa

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) to have

Conjugation

Conjugation of haa (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

infinitive I	haa
infinitive II	(tu) haan
past participle	hed
imperative singular	haa
imperative plural	haa’m
	present	past
1st singular	haa	hed
2nd singular	heest	hedst
3rd singular	hee	hed
plural	haa	hed
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa hed	hed hed
2nd singular	heest hed	hedst hed
3rd singular	hee hed	hed hed
plural	haa hed	hed hed
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skal haa	wal haa
2nd singular	skääl haa	wääl haa
3rd singular	skal haa	wal haa
plural	skel haa	wel haa

Conjugation of haa (Sylt dialect)

infinitive I	haa
infinitive II	(tö) haan
past participle	her
imperative	haa
	present	past
1st singular	haa	her
2nd singular	heest	herst
3rd singular	heer	her
plural / dual	haa	her
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa her	her her
2nd singular	heest her	herst her
3rd singular	heer her	her her
plural / dual	haa her	her her
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skel haa	wel haa
2nd singular	sket haa	wet haa
3rd singular	skel haa	wel haa
plural / dual	skel haa	wel haa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

haa

1. obsolete typography of hå

Verb

haa

1. obsolete typography of hå

Rennellese

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

haa

1. four

References

• Samuel H. Elbert (1975), Dictionary of the Language of Rennell and Bellona, Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, →ISBN, page 76

Somali

Alternative forms

• haah

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Particle

haa

1. yes

   Antonym: ma

References

• “haa”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012

Tiv

Tiv numbers ^(edit)

←  1	2	3  →
Cardinal: haa

Etymology

From earlier *baa; compare other Tivoid terms like Evant vialɔ and Caka bali. Beyond Tivoid, cognate with Proto-Bantu *-bàdɪ́ and Proto-Grassfields *(í-)bà(l)´.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haː/, [hɑː]

Noun

haa

1. two

References

• R. Blench, Tivoid Comparative

Tlingit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hàː]

Pronoun

haa

1. our

Võro

Noun

haa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.