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aho

aha

masc nom sg of aha (noun)

1. aho (ind): (expressing a wish) oh may!; please let!
2. aha (masc): day
3. aho (ind): day
4. aho (ind): (expressing pleasure, surprise or disbelief) oh!; wow!
5. aho (ind): surely; indeed; truly
6. aho (ind): (expressing dismay) oh dear!; oh no!; woe!

Etymology. Pali aho is an old exclamatory particle with roots in Sanskrit āho, expressing emotion or emphasis. The word has no clear cognate outside Indo-Aryan but belongs to a class of exclamatory interjections common across languages. The sense ranges from a wish ("oh may!") to assertion ("surely"), reflecting the pragmatics of interjections across languages.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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