different between nah vs nope

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [næ?], [n??]

Interjection

nah

1. (informal) no

Translations

Anagrams

• HNA, Han, ahn, han

German

Alternative forms

• nahe (dated or very formal; also a preposition, which is formal too)

Etymology

From Middle High German n?h, from Old High German n?h, from Proto-Germanic *n?hw. Compare English nigh. Doublet of nach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/, [na?]
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

nah (comparative näher, superlative am nächsten)

1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense), nearby
   • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 573:

Declension

Antonyms

• fern

Derived terms

• körpernah
• Nahkampf
• regierungsnah
• zeitnah

Adverb

nah

1. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense)

Antonyms

• weit
• fern

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nah/

Conjunction

nah

1. Used in a narrative or an argument. It appears at the beginning of a sentence and suggests that the previous part of the narrative or argument is complete and clear and that the speaker is about to move on to the next part or step. The following are the closest equivalents in English.

   "Now" or "Okay, now..."

   Nah, itu yang tidak bisa kita ketahui

   Now, that's what we haven't been able to find out.

   Lalu saya dipecat dengan tidak hormat. Nah, ini yang minimbulkan perasaan bahwa itu keterlaluan.

   Then I was given a dishonourable dismissal. Now, this is what made me feel that they had over-stepped the mark.

Interjection

nah

1. I told you so! See?! (at long last the penny's dropped).

   Nah! Makanya jangan makan buah banyak-banyak (a mother scolding a child who has a stomachache)

   See?! That's why you shouldn't eat a lot of fruit.

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nah/
• Rhymes: -nah, -ah

Interjection

nah (Jawi spelling ???)

1. here! (when giving something).

Further reading

• “nah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Munsee

Particle

náh

1. there

References

• O'Meara, John (2014) , “náh”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, ?ISBN

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *n?hw. Cognates include Old English n?h, n?ah and Old Norse ná.

Adjective

n?h

1. close
2. near

Derived terms

• n?h?

Descendants

• Middle High German: n?ch
  • Alemannic German: naach, nooch
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: nå

    Mòcheno: no

  • Central Franconian: noh
  • German: nah
  • Luxembourgish: no

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *n?hwiz.

Preposition

n?h (takes dative)

1. towards
2. after (time)

Descendants

• Middle High German: n?h
  • German: nach
  • Luxembourgish: no
  • Yiddish: ????? (nokh)

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *n?hw. Cognates include Old English n?ah and Old Norse ná.

Adjective

n?h (comparative n?hiro, superlative n?hist)

1. near
2. close

Declension

See also

• n?ho

Descendants

• Middle Low German: nâch, nâ
  • German Low German: na

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *n?hwiz.

Preposition

n?h (takes dative)

1. to, towards

Turkish

Etymology

From either Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Serbo-Croatian ??

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?h/

Interjection

nah

1. (informal) lo!, there it is!

2. (vulgar) Makes the following word negative

3. (vulgar) accompanies the fig sign (compare Russian ?????)

English

Etymology 1

Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yep and welp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?p/, [no?p?]
• Rhymes: -??p

Particle

nope

1. (informal) No.
   • 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, p. 97,

     "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."

   • 1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, p. 319,

     "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."

   • 1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, p. 50

     “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."

   • c1930, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, p. 13

     1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"...

   • 2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, ?ISBN, p. 54,

     Nope. Don't know as I do.

Usage notes

The usage as a reply in the form of a single-word sentence has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.

Translations

Antonyms

• yup
• yep
• yeah

Noun

nope (plural nopes)

1. (informal) A negative reply, no.
   • 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ?ISBN (2001), p. 32

     By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.

2. (slang) An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
   • 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, [1]

     This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.

Translations

Derived terms

• nope out

Etymology 2

Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

nope (plural nopes)

1. (archaic, except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch
   • 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,

     To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.

   • 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255

     I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.

   • 1836, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement, p. 380

     In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.

   • 1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, p. 583,

     Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:nope.

Etymology 3

Possibly influenced by nape and knap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??p/

Noun

nope (plural nopes)

1. (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
   • 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, p. xci

     (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.

   • 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, p. 69,

     I'll fetch thee a nope.

Verb

nope (third-person singular simple present nopes, present participle noping, simple past and past participle noped)

1. (archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.
   • 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., p. 183,

     "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.

   • 1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., p. 65

     The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"

Anagrams

• open, peno-, peon, pone

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: no?pe

Verb

nope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nopen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: nope

Interjection

nope

1. (informal) nope

Anagrams

• open

French

Alternative forms

• noppe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch noppe (“a fluff of wool, wool tassel”), from Old Dutch *noppo, *hnoppo, from Proto-Germanic *hnuppô (“nap of cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *knew-, *kenw- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old English hnoppa (“nap of cloth”). More at nap.

Noun

nope f (plural nopes)

1. A tuft of wool; a knot in a fabric; nap.

Etymology 2

English nope

Interjection

nope

1. (informal, neologism) nope

Further reading

• “nope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).