different between eureka vs aha

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (heúr?ka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first singular of ??????? (heurísk?, “to find”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ju??ik?/
• Rhymes: -i?k?

Interjection

eureka

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
   • 1821 Byron, Don Juan, 1821

     Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess.

   • 1970 Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

     A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.

Derived terms

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

Translations

Noun

eureka (uncountable)

1. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)

See also

• aha moment
• epiphany

Dutch

Alternative forms

• heureka

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (heúr?ka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of ??????? (heurísk?, “I find”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?œy??re?ka?/, /ø??re?ka?/
• Hyphenation: eu?re?ka

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??w.re.ka/
• Hyphenation: èu?re?ka

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eu??eka/, [eu???e.ka]

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

English

Alternative forms

• a-ha

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??h??/
• (General American) enPR: ä-hä?, IPA^(key): [??h?], [??h?]
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

aha

1. An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

2. An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt.

Derived terms

• aha experience
• aha moment

Translations

See also

• ah
• ha
• eureka

Anagrams

• aah

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?a]

Interjection

aha

1. aha, I see (expresion of understanding, realization, invention or recognition)

Noun

aha f

1. (colloquial, obsolete) toilet

   Synonyms: záchod, toaleta

Declension

Further reading

• aha in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• aha in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Interjection

aha

1. aha

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æhæ/

Noun

aha (plural ahawo)

1. alcohol

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??h?/, [????]
• IPA^(key): /??h??/, [????(?)]
• Rhymes: -?h?
• Syllabification: a?ha

Interjection

aha

1. uh-huh (indicates that the speaker agrees or is simply still listening)

Usage notes

Depending on the context and intonation (especially with rising intonation), the interjection may instead be interpreted as dismissing or disagreeing with an opinion.

See also

• ahaa

Anagrams

• aah, haa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ha/
• Rhymes: -a?

Interjection

aha

1. aha

Further reading

• “aha” in Duden online

Gothic

Romanization

aha

1. Romanization of ????????????

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?a/

Noun

aha m (masc. plural ahabii, fem. ahako, fem. plural ahabee) (Note: the form after a determiner is aha)

1. tooth (fem. = molar, fem. pl. = adult teeth, masc. pl. = baby teeth)
2. red velvet mite (Trombidiid)

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *afa, from Proto-Oceanic *apa, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *apa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a.ha/, [??h?]

Pronoun

aha

1. what (interrogative pronoun)

References

• “aha” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??h?] or [??h?] (only as an exclamation)
• Rhymes: -h?

Interjection

aha

1. (colloquial) aha (an exclamation of sudden understanding, realization, or recognition)

2. (colloquial) uh-huh (used informally in place of a yes)

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *afa, from Proto-Oceanic *apa, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *apa.

Pronoun

aha

1. what (interrogative pronoun)

References

• “aha” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ahw? (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh? (“water”).

Noun

aha f

1. water
2. running water, river, stream

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?xa/

Interjection

aha

1. aha

Further reading

• aha in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *afa, from Proto-Oceanic *apa, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *apa.

Pronoun

aha

1. what (interrogative pronoun)
2. which

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jáka, a variant of Proto-Bantu *-jíbaka.

Verb

aha

1. to build

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *afa, from Proto-Oceanic *apa, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *apa.

Pronoun

aha

1. what (interrogative pronoun)

Toba

Particle

aha

1. yes

References

• 2012, María Belén Carpio and Marisa Censabella, Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba, in Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada Fernández; ?ISBN