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Ah

nounprefixpronountop 1 000 in film dialogue

A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of ampere-hourInitialism of ampere-hour (unit of charge).

prefix

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    A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.

    Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.

    I was called, at about an hour's notice, to take Ah Quai (the girl rescued in the spring), and go with Mr. Gardiner to Seattle, and give evidence in the case of one of the women brought over on the same ship with Ah Quai.

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 阿. Compare Dutch -A-.

pronoun

  1. 1

    Variant of ahAlternative letter-case form of ah (“I”).

Forms

plural
Ahs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).