हा

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• IPA^(key): /ɦa/

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हा • (hā)

1. he (proximal)

   हा सुरेश.

   hā sureś.

   He (proximal) is Suresh.

2. this

   हा खोका खूप मोठा आहे.

   hā khokā khūp moṭhā āhe.

   This box is very big.

• तो (to, “he; that”)
• हे (he, “it (proximal); this”), ही (hī, “she (proximal); this”).

• IPA^(key): [ha]

हा • (hā) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐴𑐵)

1. bee

हा • (hā) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐴𑐵)

1. root of a plant, tree, etc.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɦɑː/

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). This root is not always easily distinguishable from the one below, and many derived terms of that root are perhaps originally derived from this one.

हा • (hā)

1. to start or spring forward, bound away, give way to [+dative]
2. to spring or leap upon
3. to go or depart or betake one's self to have recourse to [+accusative]
4. to fall or come into any state

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaH-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-. This root is not always easily distinguishable from the one above, and many derived terms of that root are perhaps originally derived from this one.

हा • (hā)

1. to leave, abandon, desert, quit, forsake, relinquish
2. to discharge, emit.
3. to put away, take off, remove, lay aside, give up, renounce, resign, avoid, shun, abstain or refrain from.
4. to disregard, neglect.
5. to lose, be deprived of.
6. to get rid of. escape from.
7. to cause to emit (with शर्धम्, ‘to cause to break wind’)
8. to be left behind, fall short of (abl.).
9. to be excluded from or bereft of
10. to be overtaken by (instr.).
11. to be deficient or wanting, suffer loss or injury, fail (also in a lawsuit), decrease, wane, decline, come to an end.
12. to weigh less (at the ordeal of the balance).
13. to be given up or avoided. (v.l.)
14. to be subtracted.
15. to become detached from (with abl. or instr.), fall out (as hair)
16. to omit, neglect.
17. to fall short of. be wanting in (acc.).
18. to give up
19. to lose
20. to abandon

Onomatopoeic.

हा • (hā)

1. oh, alas

• Monier Williams (1899) “हा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1296, column 1.
• Monier Williams (1899) “हा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1296, column 2.