Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“pain, grief, lamentation”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“pain, grief, lamentation”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
हाहा · noun · masculine
एक गंधर्व का नाम · एक विशाल संख्या का वाचक शब्द (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
हाहा · ind
दुःख, वेदना और आश्चर्यसूचक एक अव्यय — Śabdasāgara
हाहा · hā-hā · s.m.
Laughing; ha! ha! — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1217
हाहा · hā-hā · intj.
Ah! oh! alas! (expressive of surprise, or grief, or pain) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1217
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a Gandharva or N. of a Gandharva, &c.
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Dictionary citations
hāhā m. (for hā hā See under 1. hā, p. 1296, col. 1) a Gandharva or N. of a Gandharva, ŚrS.; MBh.; Hariv. &c.
a partic. high number, ten thousand billions (mahā-hāhā, ‘a hundred thousand billions’), MW.
hāhā m. N. of a Gandharva. — ind. An exclamation denoting pain, grief or surprise, (it is simply hā repeated for the sake of emphasis; see hā). Comp. — kāraḥ 1 a grief, lamentation, loud wailing. (pb) 2 the din or uproar of battle. — ravaḥ the cry hāhā.
hāhā m. (-hāḥ) A Gandharba, a demi-god of an inferior order, attendant on KUVERA and the other gods, and especially the chanter of their praises. ind. An interjection of surprise, or grief, or pain. E. hā alas, interjection of sorrow, hā to abandon, kvip aff., or with asi, aff. hāhas, or hā interjection repeated.
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