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weh

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forWeh.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Weh terms

FromNepali[script needed](wah donka).

weh (pluralwehs)

1. (archaic) Ared panda.

• IPA^(key): /wɛ(ː)/
• Rhymes:-ɛ,-ɛː

weh

1. Alternative form ofwah.
   • 1864, Flora Dawson,Princes, Public Men, and Pretty Women: Episodes in Real Life:

     ohweh ! ohweh ! " — Sweetest mother, you have the illness ; ohweh ! ohweh ! It was so

   • 1910, Katherine Mansfield,The Child-Who_Was-Tired:

     "Oh,weh! oh,weh!" The Child-Who-Was-Tired pushed and pulled them apart, muffled them into their coats, and drove them out of the house.

   • 1992, Ewa Kuryluk,Century 21,→ISBN, page307:

     Perhaps it's in Lausanne, at the shore of Lake Leman, and in the widow's arms that Wolf wroteOh weh! Perhaps she whispered it into his ear, when they first slept together, or when he parted from her. Perhaps it was heroh weh! he could never forget.

   • 2008, Bluedan,Resume,→ISBN, page 7:

     I tell you that it's true compassion, baby, ohweh.

   • 2012, Regina F. Bendix, Galit Hasan-Rokem,A Companion to Folklore,→ISBN, page90:

     "Kill one village, But leave another. Kill one village, But leave another. On the lake:weh weh weh weh weh.

   • 2017, Frank Hamilton Cushing,Zuñi Folk Tales:

     At last one night the Master of Sorcerers in secret places raised his voice and cried: “Weh-h-h-h!Weh-h-h-h-h-h!”

• Hew,hew

• weh',wehe(for the interjection)

FromMiddle High Germanwē, fromOld High Germanwē, fromProto-West Germanic*wai.

CompareLatinvae,Dutchwee,Englishwoe,Danishve,Swedishve,Gothic𐍅𐌰𐌹(wai).

• IPA^(key): /veː/

• Audio(Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophone:W
• Rhymes:-eː

weh (strong nominative masculine singularweher,comparativeweher,superlativeamwehstenoramwehesten)

1. sore,painful

   einenwehen Zeh haben ―to have asore toe

   einwehes Bein haben ―to have asore leg

   Ihr ist ganzweh zumute. ―She feels verypainful.

   Ihm wurde ganzweh ums Herz. ―His heart ached.

weh

1. alas!woe!

   Freunde sind gut, aberwehe dem, der ihrer bedarf in der Not. ―Friends are good, butwoe to anyone who needs them in times of need.

   • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther,Legenden und Geschichten‎^[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff,→ISBN:

     „Oweh, du mein schönes Paradies!“ weinte Adam und weinte Eva.

     “Ohwoe, you beautiful Paradise of mine!” Adam wept and Eve wept.

• wehtun
• weinen
• wenig

• Cassell's German and English Dictionary (1933)

• IPA^(key): /weh/
• Rhymes:-weh

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weh

1. gift

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weh

1. an emphatic particle

• "weh" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson,Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

CompareGermanweh. Possibly fromMiddle High German.

weh

1. sore,painful

Comparenge / ngek / nye / nyek. See alsoHokkien諧 /谐(ôe,“to persuade; to advise; toharmonize”) as in諧煞 /谐煞(ôe-soah,“tomediate; toconciliate; toreconcile”).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key): /ˈwe/[ˈwɛː]
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:weh

weh? (Baybayin spellingᜏᜒ)(slang)

1. Expression ofdisbelief orskepticism:oh really

   Synonym:ows

   Weh, di nga?

   Oh really, is it really not?

• whe
• huweh

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key): /ˈwe/[ˈwɛ]
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:weh

weh (Baybayin spellingᜏᜒ)(dialectal, chiefly Bulacan)

1. alternative form ofe

• “Weh?!” inTagalog.com.
• “WEH” inTagalog-English Dictionary, TAGALOG LANG, 2007.

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