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ha

/hɑː/

ha is the alternative form of a.

Interjection (1)

  1. A representation of laughter.
    • Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.
  2. An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
    • Ha! Checkmate!
  3. (archaic) An exclamation of grief.
  4. (dated) A sound of hesitation: er, um.

Meaning of a

Verb

a

  1. (dialectal, slang) Have (auxiliary verb).
    • I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
  2. (dialectal, rare, slang) Had (auxiliary verb).
    • I wisht you a seen 'im; fust he looked mighty gubious; then he begins ter laff. He'll git likened ter ridin' mighty briefly."1887 October, Octave Thanet [pseudonym; Alice French], “The Mortgage on Jeffy”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume II, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 478, column 1

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Interjection (2)

  1. Said when making a vigorous attack.
    • "That's well. Well," cried he, now for my turn. Ha! a hit! a hit!"1844 September, E.M. Walley, “Eighteen Months in Russia”, in The Covenant: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Cause of Odd-fellowship, volume 3, number 9, page 395
    • I hit a cross-court forehand. “Ha ha haa. Great! Say, usin' cross-courts and angles like that is how O'Bramowitts beat Riggs."1988, Albemarle - Issues 3-7, page 49

Noun (1)

ha (plural has)

  1. (Egypt) The sum of bodily parts; the physical body.
    Antonyms:
    ka

Proper noun (1) capitalized: HA

HA

  1. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Highways Agency.
  2. (Hong-Kong, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hospital Authority.

Noun (2) capitalized: HA

HA (countable and uncountable, plural HAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of high availability.
  2. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of hospital apprentice.

Noun (3) capitalized: Ha

Ha pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic and linguistic group based in Kigoma Region in western Tanzania.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ha

Ha

  1. The dialect of Rwanda-Rundi spoken by this group.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Ha

Ha

  1. (Egyptian) A god of the deserts to the west of Egypt, associated with the underworld (duat) and pictured as a man wearing the symbol for desert hills on his head.

Antonyms of ha

Forms of ha

pluralhas
pluralHAs

Origin of ha

Attested early 14th century, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Danish ha, Dutch ha, Finnish ha, Hungarian ha, Latin ha, Latvian ha, Swedish ha.

Onomatopoeic.

Borrowed from Egyptian ḥꜥ.

Phrases with ha

4 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with ha

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about ha

What does ha mean?
Ha means a representation of laughter.
What is ha the alternative form of?
Ha is the alternative form of a.
What part of speech is ha?
Ha can be an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ha?
Ha is pronounced /hɑː/.

Words near ha in the dictionary

  1. h8r
  2. h8rs
  3. h8s
  4. h@
  5. h@s
  6. ha
  7. ha gow
  8. ha ha
  9. ha ha funny
  10. ha ha Herman
  11. ha ha only serious

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ha (page history and authors); HA (page history and authors); Ha (page history and authors); a (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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