h

See also: Variations of "h"

h - Translingual

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

h

  1. (IPA) voiceless glottal fricative or approximant.
    • (superscript) (after a consonant) aspiration; otherwise a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [h] see ʰ.
  2. (metrology) symbol for the prefix hecto-, indicating multiplication by 100
  3. symbol of the hour
  4. Planck's constant
  5. helion
  6. higgson
  7. (transcription) aspiration
  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of H, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur

h - English

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/, silent

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, plural hs or h's)

  1. The eighth letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

Number

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The ordinal number eighth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.

Noun

h

  1. (sciences) Abbreviation of hour (particularly when used as a (non-SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units)
  2. (baseball, in statistics) Abbreviation of hit, the number of hits by a player
  3. (slang) Abbreviation of heroin.
  4. (computing) Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number)
  5. Abbreviation of home phone.

Verb

h

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of have and inflections having, had
    • exception: hz 'has'

Adjective

h (comparative more h, superlative most h)

  1. Alternative form of H

Derived terms

h - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /h/

Letter

h lower case (upper case H)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (Southern) /at͡ʃe/, [a.t͡ʃe̞]
  • IPA: (Northern) /hat͡ʃe/, [ɦa.t͡ʃe̞]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Basque alphabet, called hatxe and written in the Latin script.

h - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ɦaː/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Egyptian

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA: /hɛ/
    • Conventional anglicization: he

Noun

 m

  1. courtyard

Inflection

singular h
dual hwj
plural hw

Alternative forms

h

h - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ho/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The tenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ho and written in the Latin script.

h - Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhɑː/, [ˈ(h)ɑː]
  • (dated) IPA: /ˈhɑʃː/, [ˈ(h)ɑʃː]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called haa or hašš and written in the Latin script.

h - Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhoː/, [ˈho̞ː] (spelled out as a letter)

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called hoo and written in the Latin script.

Noun

h

  1. (music) B (note)

Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

singular plural
nominative h h:t
genitive h:n h:iden h:itten
partitive h:ta h:ita
accusative h h:n h:t
inessive h:ssa h:issa
elative h:sta h:ista
illative h:hon h:ihin
adessive h:lla h:illa
ablative h:lta h:ilta
allative h:lle h:ille
essive h:na h:ina
translative h:ksi h:iksi
instructive h:in
abessive h:tta h:itta
comitative h:ineen

h - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aʃ/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

Symbol

h

  1. Used to indicate the hour in a time indication, either with or without following minutes.
    • 10h10:00 a.m.
    • 20h308:30 p.m.

h - Fula

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

h - German

Letter

h

  1. the letter h, see H

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /uːɐ̯/

Noun

h

  1. (common, not restricted to scientific usage) hour

h - Gothic

Romanization

h

  1. Romanization of 𐌷

h - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: [ˈx]
  • (letter name): IPA: [ˈhaː]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.
  2. (music) Alternative form of H (B, the seventh note in the C major scale, its symbol in writing or in print, or the equivalent key of a piano or stop of a stringed instrument)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
Possessive forms of h

Derived terms


Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈhoɟ]

Conjunction

h

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of hogy (that).

h - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA: /hauː/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The tenth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Ido

Pronunciation

  • (context pronunciation) IPA: /h/
  • (letter name) IPA: /he/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ha/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Prefix

h

  1. marker of h-prothesis
    • na habhannof the river
    • fáilte go hÉirinnwelcome to Ireland
    • chomh hard le crannas tall as a tree

h - Italian

Letter

h f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Italian alphabet, called acca and written in the Latin script.

h - Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [x]

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The letter H/h (like F/f, and O/o representing [o], [oː] instead of [uə̯]) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings). Note that it represents the sound of IPA [x] (like German machen, ach), not (as in most other alphabets based on the Latin script) the sound of IPA [h].

h - Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /x/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Lushootseed

Letter

h

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Lushootseed alphabet, pronounced as a voiceless glottal fricative.

h - Malay

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Maltese

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /-/, /ː/, /j/, /w/, /ħ/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The tenth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • In contemporary Maltese, h remains a true consonant [ħ] in the following cases:
    • in word-final position or when being the last radical of a verb: ikrah [ˈɪkraħ], jixbhu [ˈjɪʃpħʊ];
    • before the negative ending -x: jarawhx [jaˈrawħʃ];
    • in the clusters -għh-, -ħh-, -hh-, which all become [ħħ].
  • Otherwise it is silent or leaves only a vocalic trace:
    • Following and preceding a, e, o are lengthened if stressed: hedded [ˈɛːddɛt], fehmet [ˈfɛːmɛt]. Other vowels are not affected.
    • In intervocalic position it is a glide, [j] after i, ie, and [w] after u: jibniha [jɪbˈnɪːja], inħobbuhom [ɪnħɔbˈbuːwɔm].
    • The sequence -aho- becomes [ɔː]: rahom [rɔːm]. The sequence -ehi- becomes [ɛj] or [ɛˈjiː]: ftehim [ftɛjm], [ftɛˈjiːm].
  • Phonotactically, word-initial h now generally behaves like a vowel, allowing contractions such as m’hemmx [mɛːmʃ]. However, word-internal h still behaves like a (virtual) consonant. Compare for example qablu [ˈʔablʊ] with qabilha [ʔaˈbɪla], which latter is formed as though the l were followed by a consonant.

h - Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /hɔː/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

h

  1. The eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • When written before j, the h becomes silent.

h - Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The tenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /xa/
  • (phoneme) IPA: /x/, (dialectal) /h/

Letter

h (upper case H, lower case)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Polish alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Seemingly native words spelt with ‹h› (rather than ‹ch›) are generally from Czech or other Slavic dialects. Otherwise ‹h› occurs in loanwords, especially from German. Some southern speakers distinguish between /x/ and /h/, but this is not part of standard Polish.

h - Portuguese

Pronunciation

Name: see agá

Letter:

  • in most words: silent
  • in expressive terms and recent loanwords: IPA: /h/, [h], [ɦ], [ʁ]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called agá and written in the Latin script.
    1. silent letter used mainly in words derived from Latin, Greek and other Romance languages; word-initial only
      1. (chiefly obsolete) silent letter used word-medially in loanwords
      2. (obsolete except in given names) used in the Hellenistic digraphs th, ph and rh
      3. (obsolete except in given names) used in words perceived to be Hellenisms
    2. represents /h/ in most recent loanwords from other languages, most commonly English
    3. used in the digraphs ch, lh and nh, where it indicates a palatal or post-alveolar pronunciation
    4. (obsolete) silent letter used word-initially in monosyllabic verbs with no attack
    5. silent letter used syllable-finally in some interjections
      • ih! oh!uh oh! ooh!
    6. represents /h/ in some expressive terms
    7. (chiefly Internet slang) used as a replacement for the acute or circumflex accent, or silent infinitive -r, indicating stress
      • eh (standard é), Feh (standard Fê), fazeh (standard fazer)is, a nickname, to do
    8. (obsolete except in the word Bahia) silent letter used to mark some hiatus

Noun

h f (invariable)

  1. Abbreviation of hora.
    1. used to indicate time in relation to a 24-hour clock
      • O evento é hoje, às 20hThe event is today at 8 p.m.
      • 09h3009:30 a.m.
    2. used to indicate any sequence of time in hours
      • O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45sThe athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

Usage notes

  • This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 0 and 23 to indicate the day's hours).
  • The abbreviation can be followed by a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour (as in French). This can be optionally represented by another abbreviation: min.
    • Example: 15h30 or 15h30min, the first being much more common
  • min can be further followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
    • Example: 20h43min08s

h - Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. (International Standard) The tenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The eleventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The tenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called haș, ha, or and written in the Latin script.

h - Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase) H

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /x/

Letter

h (Cyrillic spelling х)

  1. The 12th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by g and followed by i.

h - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /x/, /h/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

h - Slovene

Alternative forms

See usage notes for both etymologies.

Pronunciation

(Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA: /x/, [ɣ], SNPT: /h/, [ɣ] (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: /x/, [ɣ], SNPT: /h/, [ɣ]

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

(Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA: [ˈxə̂], [ˈxâː], [ˈxǎː], SNPT: [hə̏], [hā] (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: [ˈxə], [ˈxaː], SNPT: [hə̀], [hā],

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

Rhymes: -ə, -aː ([ə̀], [á]) (non-tonal) Hyphenation: h Homophones: H, h, ha (tonal and non-tonal)

Alpine Slavic (1000–1200 AD): *hə̀      Carinthian dialect plane: *hə̏      Veneitian–Karst dialect plane: *hə̏      Soča–Idrija dialect plane: *hə̏      Upper Carniolan dialect plane: *hə̏      Lower Carniolan dialect plane: *hə̏      Southern Styrian dialect plane: *hə̏      Northern Styrian dialect plane: *hə̏      Pannonian dialect plane: *hə̏

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The fourteenth letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  3. The tenth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

In Metelko alphabet, the phoneme was written by two different letters whether it was pronounced as velar /x/ or glottal /h/, a distinction irrelevant to nowadays standard and the distinction was also not used by all writers. Phoneme /h/ was written with 〈h〉, while /x/ was written with a yet to be encoded character .

Symbol

h

  1. (SNPT for Standard Slovene) Phonetic transcription of sound [x].
  2. (dialectal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sounds [h, ħ].

Noun

h m inan or f

  1. The name of the Latin script letter H / h.
  2. (linguistics) The name of the phoneme /x/.

Inflection

  • Overall more common
First masculine declension (soft o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, -j- infix
nom. sing. h
gen. sing. h-ja
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Third masculine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing. h
gen. sing. h
  • Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , -j- infix
nom. sing. h
gen. sing. h-ja
  • Rare
Third feminine declension (no endings) , fixed accent
nom. sing. h
gen. sing. h

Pronunciation

(Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA: [x], [ɣ], SNPT: [h], [ɣ] (see also usage notes) (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: [x], [ɣ], SNPT: [h], [ɣ] (see also usage notes)

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

(Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA: [xə], SNPT: [hə] (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: [xə], SNPT: [hə]

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

(Standard Slovene, tonal) IPA: [ˈxə́], SNPT: [hə̏] (Standard Slovene, non-tonal) IPA: [ˈxə], SNPT: [hə̀]

Note:different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.

Rhymes: -ə ([-ə̀]) (non-tonal) Hyphenation: h Homophones: h, H (tonal and non-tonal)

Alpine Slavic (1000–1200 AD): *k      Carinthian dialect plane: *k      Veneitian–Karst dialect plane: =*k      Soča–Idrija dialect plane: *k      Upper Carniolan dialect plane: *k      Lower Carniolan dialect plane: *k      Southern Styrian dialect plane: *k      Northern Styrian dialect plane: *k      Pannonian dialect plane: *k

Preposition

h

  1. (with dative, see usage notes) to, for

Usage notes

Preposition h is a form of preposition k that appears before words that start with /k/ or /ɡ/ while other form is used for all other words. In "correct" pronunciation, the preposition does not form its own syllable, but binds to the first syllable of the next word and has therefore two pronunciations: [x] if word starts with [k] and [ɣ] if word starts with [ɡ]. In colloquial speech, this form (or at least its pronunciation) are also used with words starting with other letters.

h - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (letter name) /ˈat͡ʃe/ [ˈa.t͡ʃe]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

h - Swedish

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

h

  1. (nonstandard, anglicism) Abbreviation of hour from English.
  2. (strictly technology) Abbreviation of hora from Latin.
  3. (music) B, note with a frequency close to 493.88 · 2n Hz
    • Synonym: (anglicism) b

h - Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: h
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA: /ˈʔejt͡ʃ/, [ˈʔɛɪ̯t͡ʃ]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA: /ha/, [hɐ]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA: /ˈʔat͡ʃe/, [ˈʔa.t͡ʃɛ]
  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/, [h] (silent in Spanish unadapted loanwords)

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜌ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜐ᜔)

  1. The eighth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called eyts and written in the Latin script.

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, Baybayin spelling )

  1. The seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ha and written in the Latin script.

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. (historical) The ninth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called hache and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Over time, some of the loaned Spanish words still spelled with the silent h are spoken with /h/ due to the loss of knowledge of the letter being silent.

h - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA: (standard) /ˈheː/, /ˈhaʃ/
  • (phoneme) IPA: /h/, [ç]

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The tenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called he and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • See H.

h - Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /h~x/

Letter

h (upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called he and written in the Latin script.

h - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /h/

Prefix

h

  1. marker of h-prothesis
    • ei hiaithher language
    • i’n heglwysto our church
    • un ar hugaintwenty-one

h - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /h/
  • (letter name): IPA: /hí/

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The ninth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

h - Zulu

Letter

h (lower case, upper case H)

  1. The eighth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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