different between meh vs teh

English

Etymology 1

• Popularized by the television show The Simpsons, specifically in the episode titled "Sideshow Bob Roberts".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?/

Adjective

meh (comparative more meh, superlative most meh)

1. Mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring.
2. Apathetic; unenthusiastic.

Translations

Interjection

meh

1. (slang) Expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm.

Synonyms

• pht, pshh, phht, pssh, pssht, psht, pshht, feh, pooh, pshaw, pish, bah, poh

Translations

Noun

meh

1. (informal) A judgement marked by indifference; lack of impression.

Etymology 2

From Cantonese ? (me1).

Particle

meh

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial) Final interrogative particle.

Anagrams

• 'hem, Hem, hem, hem-

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mef

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *meuska, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (compare Latvian maût (“to submerge”), Serbo-Croatian m?ti (“to wash”)).

Verb

meh (first-person singular past tense meha)

1. I soak

Related terms

• muf

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (megha, “cloud”).

Noun

meh ?

1. rain

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[8], pages 13-36

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?] (compare Persian ???? (mah), Ossetian ??? (mæj), Avestan ????????? (m??), ????????????????????? (mao?h)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Sanskrit ??? (m??sa)), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon; month”) (compare Albanian muaj, Armenian ???? (amis), French mois, Tocharian A mañ, English moon).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?h

Noun

meh f

1. month

Related terms

• mang

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Old High German m?ro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. Compare German mehr, Dutch meer, English more.

Adjective

meh

1. more

Adverb

meh

1. any longer
2. more
3. anymore

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) mij?h

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?x?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mê?x/

Noun

m?h m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. blower, bellows
2. goatskin, wineskin

Declension

Related terms

• mešina

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?x/

Noun

m??h m inan

1. bellows

Inflection

Further reading

• “meh”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?h/

Noun

meh

1. Fort Liard form of mbeh

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 11

Spanish

Interjection

meh

1. meh

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *me?? (“mother”). Cognate with Thai ??? (m???), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (m?), Lü ??? (mae¹), Shan ??? (m?ae), Ahom ???????????? (mee), Bouyei meeh.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /me?/
• Tone numbers: me⁶
• Hyphenation: meh

Noun

meh (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography me?)

1. mother

   Synonym: daxmeh

2. woman; female

Classifier

meh (old orthography me?)

1. Used for adult women who have given birth.
2. Used for female animals that have given birth or laid eggs.

Adjective

meh (old orthography me?)

1. main; principal

Derived terms

English

Etymology

Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /t?/

Article

teh

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic or facetious effect.

   This is teh game for your new box!

   You are teh haxor!

Usage notes

• Teh is sometimes used in deliberately ungrammatical ways compared to the word the. For example, teh can be applied to adjectives; "He is teh stupid" is an acceptable sentence within the universe of teh usage, whereas ordinarily "He is the stupid" is not.

Anagrams

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., HET, eth, eth-, het, the, the-

Albanian

Etymology

A prefixed derivative of eh.

Noun

teh m (indefinite plural teha, definite singular teha, definite plural tehat)

1. blade

Related terms

• eh

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *t(n)?h, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t?i? ~ *t?ih ~ *t?i?h (“earth, ground”); cognate with Koho tiah (“earth, ground”), Mon ?? (t?e?, “earth, ground, land”), Khmer ?? (d?y, “earth, ground, land”), Semai tiiq (“earth, ground, soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?h/

Noun

teh

1. earth, ground
2. dirt

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• te

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?/

Pronoun

teh

1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

Synonyms

• tehhuatl

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay teh (“tea”), from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?h/
• Hyphenation: tèh

Noun

tèh (first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)

1. tea

Derived terms

Further reading

• “teh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Noun

teh (Jawi spelling ????, informal 1st possessive tehku, impolite 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)

1. tea

Synonyms

• ca

Derived terms

• teh tarik

Descendants

• Indonesian: teh
• ? Dutch: thee
  • Afrikaans: tee
  • ? West Frisian: tee
  • ? Dutch Low Saxon: thee
  • ? Danish: te
    • ? Faroese: te
  • ? English: tea
    • Gullah: tea
    • Jamaican Creole: tea
    • ? Abenaki: ti
    • ? Chickasaw: tii'
    • ? Cocopa: ?i·
    • ? Cornish: té
    • ? Cree:

      Canadian syllabics: ?? (tiy)

      Latin: tiy

    • ? Inuktitut: ? (tii)
    • ? Irish: tae
    • ? Maori: t?
    • ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
    • ? Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
    • ? Panamint: tii
    • ? Telugu: ?? (??)
    • ? Unami: ti
    • ? Welsh: te
  • ? French: thé
    • Haitian Creole: te
    • Louisiana Creole French: thé
    • ? Armenian: ??? (t?ey)
    • ? Coeur d'Alene: liiti
    • ? Corsican: tè
    • ? Greek: ????? (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
    • ? Italian: tè
      • ? Romansch: te, té, tè
    • ? Norman: thée
    • ? Occitan: tè
    • ? Romansch: te, té, tè
    • ? South Slavey: lidí
    • ? Tiri: tee
    • ? Walloon: té
  • ? German: Tee
    • ? German Low German: Tee
      • Plautdietsch: Tee
    • ? Estonian: tee
    • ? Hunsrik: Tee
    • ? Lower Sorbian: tej
    • ? Romansch: te, té, tè
    • ? Saterland Frisian: Tee
    • ? Silesian: tyj
      • ? Slovene: te (dialectal)
    • ? Silesian German: Tee
    • ? Vilamovian: tyy
    • ? Zipser German: Tee
  • ? Icelandic: te
  • ? New Latin: thea
    • ? Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
      • ? Polish: herbata
        • ? Belarusian: ???????? (harbáta)
        • ? Kashubian: arbata, rabata, erbata, rebata
        • ? Lithuanian: arbata
        • ? Samogitian: erbeta
        • ? Ukrainian: ???????? (herbáta), ????????? (herbátka)
  • ? Latvian: t?ja
  • ? Norwegian: te
  • ? Sranan Tongo: te
  • ? Swedish: te, the, thé
    • ? Finnish: tee

Min Nan

Slavey

Noun

teh

1. water

References

• Keren Rice, A grammar of Slave (1989)