آهِ

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آهِ , as also آهٍ, and آهًا, and , and أَوْهِ , and , and , and , or , and , so in some copies of the S, but in a copy in the author's handwriting , there said to be with medd, and with teshdeed and fet-h to the و, and with the ه quiescent, [or,] accord. to Aboo- Tálib, آوَّهْ, with medd, thus pronounced by the vulgar, is wrong, (T in art. او,) and , and , [in both of which, and in some other forms which follow, it is doubtful whether the ه be quiescent or movent, and if movent, with what vowel,] and , or أَوُوهُ , but said by ISd to be with medd, and mentioned by AHát as heard from the Arabs, and أَوَتَاه , or , or , and آوَّتَاه , (S, [in one copy of which the ه is marked as quiescent,]) and , with medd, or أَوِيَّاهُ , and أَوِّ and آوِ, and آوٍ, and وَاهًا, and هَاهٌ or هَاهُ, [Ah! or alas!] a word imitative of the voice, cry, or exclamation, of the مُتَأَهِّه; (Az and TA in explanation of آهِ;) [i. e.] a word expressive of pain, grief, sorrow, lamentation, complaint, or moaning; denoting the prolongation of the voice with complaint: (S, TA, after أَوَّهْ or آوَّهْ:) sometimes, also, a man says آهِ from a motive of affection, or pity, or compassion, and of impatience: [and it is also said that] آهًا is a word expressive of grief or lamentation, or of most intense grief or lamentation or regret; [that] it is put in the accus. case as being used in the manner of inf. ns.; and [that] the hemzeh is originally و: but IAth says, آهًا is a word expressive of pain, grief, sorrow, lamentation, complaint, or moaning, used in relation to evil, like as وَاهًا is used in relation to good: (TA in art. اه:) and آوَّهْ and آوِ and آوٍ are cries uttered to horses, to make them return. (ISh and TA in art. اوى. See 2 in that art. in the present work.) You say, آهِ مِنْ كَذَا [Ah, or alas, on account of, or for, such a thing!]; and in like manner, أَوْهِ [&c.], followed by مِنْ, and by لِ, and by عَلَى. [See also أَوِّ in art. او.]

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