As a Hindi name
हा · masculine
sound of distress, affliction, or fear; uproar, tumult
हा
an exclamation of distress, affliction or fear; alas
Śabdasāgara also records: शोक, दुःख, पीड़ा या निराशासूचक शब्द · आश्चर्य या आह्लादसूचक शब्द
Platts (p. 1213) also records: Ah! alas; oh!
Cited formation "हा" is ह + -आ: ह means "the thirty-third consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "हा" is हना + -आ: हना means "of next, q.v", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit हा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Prakrit 𑀳𑀸 (hā), from Sanskrit हा (hā), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
hā (ā), f. coition
a lute
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
coition
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M1 · same meaning "hā" is the nominative of "han" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "hā" is the nominative of "heman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "hā" is the feminine form of "ha" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "hā" is the nominative of "hṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
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hā (ā), f. coition
a lute
hā f. abandonment, desertion, L.
1. hā ind. an exclamation expressive of pain, anger, astonishment, satisfaction &c. (= ah! alas! oh! ha! often before or after a voc. case, also repeated hā-hā cf. 1. hahā above, or followed by other particles, esp. dhik, hanta, kaṣṭam &c.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.,
2. hā (not always separable fr. √ 3. hā) cl. 3. Ā. (Dhātup. xxv, 7) jihīte (p. jihāna [q.v.]; pf. jahire, AV.; aor. ahāsta, RV. &c.; fut. hātā Gr.; hāsyate, Br.; MBh.; inf. -hātum, ib.; ind.p. hātvā Gr.; -hāya, RV.), to start or spring forward, bound away, give way to (dat.), RV.; to spring or leap upon (?), RV. x, 49, 5; to go or depart or betake one's self to have recourse to (acc.), Nalod. ; to fall or come into any state, Kir. : Pass. hāyate (aor. ahāyi) Gr.: Caus. hāpayati (aor. ajīhapat), ib. : Desid. jihāsate, ib. : Intens. jahāyate, jāhāti, jāheti, ib.
1. han cl. 2. P. (Dhātup. xxiv, 2) hanti (3. du. hataḥ, 3. pl. ghnanti; rarely Ā. hate, 3. pl. ghnate; and cl. 1. hanati, Ved. also jighnate, ˚ti; Pot. hanyāt, Br. also hanīta, ghnīta; Impv. jahi, TĀr. handhi; impf. ahan, Ved. and ep. also ahanat, ahanan, aghnanta; p. jaghnat, ghnamāna, MBh.; pf. jaghāna, jaghnuḥ, Br. and ep. also jaghne, ˚nire, Subj. jaghanat, RV.; p. jaghnivas, Ved. also jaghanvas; aor. ahānīt, JaimBr. [cf. √ vadh]; fut. hantā, MBh.; haṃsyati, ib.; haniṣyati, ˚te, AV. &c.; inf. hantum, Ved. also hantave, ˚tavai, ˚toḥ; ind.p. hatvā, Ved. also ˚tvī, ˚tvāya, -hatya; -hanya, MBh.; -ghātam, Br. &c.), to strike, beat (also a drum), pound, hammer (acc.), strike &c. upon (loc.), RV. &c. &c.; to smite, slay, hit, kill, mar, destroy, ib.; to put to death, cause to be executed, Mn.; Hit.; to strike off, Kathās.; to ward off, avert, MBh.; to hurt, wound (the heart), R.; to hurl (a dart) upon (gen.), RV.; (in astron.) to touch, come into contact, VarBṛS.; to obstruct, hinder, Rājat.; to repress, give up, abandon (anger, sorrow &c.), Kāv.; BhP.; (?) to go, move, Naigh. ii, 14 : Pass. hanyate (ep. also ˚ti; aor. avadhi or aghāni), to be struck or killed, RV. &c. &c.: Caus. ghātayati, ˚te (properly a Nom. fr. ghāta, q.v.; aor. ajīghatat or ajīghanat), to cause to be slain or killed, kill, slay, put to death, punish, Mn.; MBh. &c.; to notify a person's death (kaṃsaṃ ghātayati = kaṃsa-vadham ācaṣṭe), Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26, Vārtt. 6 Pat.; to mar, destroy, MBh.; Pañcat. (v.l.) : Desid. jighāṃsati, ˚te (Pot. jighāṃsīyat, MBh.; impf. ajighāṃsīḥ, ŚBr.), to wish to kill or destroy, RV. &c. &c.: Intens. jaṅghanti (RV.; p. jaṅghanat, jaṅghnat or ghanighnat), jaṅghanyate (with pass. sense, MuṇḍUp.), jeghnīyate (Pāṇ. vii, 4, 31), to strike = tread upon (loc. or acc.), RV.; to slay, kill, ib.; to dispel (darkness), destroy (evil, harm), ib.; to hurt, injure, wound, MuṇḍUp.
han [cf. Gk. θείνω, θάνατος; ϕόνος, ἔπεϕνον πέϕαται; Lat. de-fendere, of-fendere; Lit. genu, gíti; Slav. gǔnati.]
heman &c. See 2. heman p. 1304, col. 1.
1. heman n. impulse, RV. ix, 97, 1 (Sāy. ‘gold’)
1. ha the thirty-third and last consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet (in Pāṇini's system belonging to the guttural class, and usually pronounced like the English h in hard; it is not an original letter, but is mostly derived from an older gh, rarely from dh or bh).
2. ha m. (only L.) a form of Śiva or Bhairava (cf. nakulīśa)
1. hṛ cl. 1. P. Ā. (Dhātup. xxii, 2) harati, ˚te (once in RV. harmi, and once in Sch. on ĀpŚr. -jiharti; pf. P. jahāra, jahartha, jahruḥ [-jaharuḥ ?] AV. &c.; Ā. jahre, Br. &c.; aor. ahār, ahṛthās, AV.; Br.; ahārṣīt, RV. &c. &c.; 3. pl. Ā. ahṛṣata, RV.; Prec. hriyāt, hṛṣīṣṭa Gr.; fut. hartā, Br. &c.; hariṣyati, ˚te, ib.; Cond. ahariṣyat, ib.; inf. hartum, ˚tos, ˚tave, ˚tavai, ib.; haritum, R.; ind.p. hṛtvā, -hāram, Br. &c.; -hṛtya, AV. &c.), to take, bear, carry in or on (with instr.), carry, convey, fetch, bring, RV. &c. &c.; to offer, present (esp. with balim), AV. &c. &c.; to take away, carry off, seize, deprive of, steal, rob, ib.; to shoot or cut or hew off, sever (the head or a limb), Mn.; MBh. &c.; to remove, destroy, dispel, frustrate, annihilate, ib.; to turn away, avert (the face), Ratnāv.; Śiś.; Ā. (older and more correct than P.), to take to one's self, appropriate (in a legitimate way), come into possession of (acc.), receive (as an heir), raise (tribute), marry (a girl), ŚBr.; GṛŚrS. &c.; to master, overpower, subdue, conquer, win, win over (also by bribing), Mn.; MBh. &c.; to outdo, eclipse, surpass, Bālar.; to enrapture, charm, fascinate, MBh.; R. &c.; to withhold, withdraw, keep back, retain, Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to protract, delay (with kālam, ‘to gain time’), AitBr.; ĀśvŚr.; Kathās.; (in arithm.) to divide, VarBṛS.; Gol. : Pass. hriyate (ep. also ˚ti; aor. ahāri), to be taken or seized &c., AV. &c. &c.: Caus. hārayati, ˚te (aor. ajīharat; Pass. hāryate), to cause to be taken or carried or conveyed or brought by (instr. or acc.; cf. Pāṇ. i, 4, 53, Sch.) or to (dat.), Mn.; MBh. &c.; to cause to be taken away, appropriate, seize, rob, Kathās.; to have taken from one's self, be deprived of, lose (esp. at play), Kāv.; Kathās.; (harayate) See pra-√ hṛ; (hārāpayati), to lose (at play), Pañcad. : Desid. jihīrṣati, ˚te (cf. jihīrṣā, ˚ṣu), to wish to take to one's self or appropriate, covet, desire, long for, AV. &c. &c.; (with kālam), to wish to gain time, MBh. : Intens. jehrīyate; jarharīti, jarīharīti or jariharīti, jarharti, jarīharti or jariharti (cf. saṃ-√ hṛ) Gr. [cf. Gk. χείρ.]
2. hṛ or hṝ cl. 9. Ā. hṛṇīte (only p. hṛṇāna, RV. i, 25, 2 &c.; Pot. [abhi]-hṛṇīthāḥ, ib. viii, 2, 19, and [?] ahṛṇāt, ŚāṅkhBr. xxiii, 4), to be angry or wroth.
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