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آهِ آه آة , (Az, S, Msb, K, &c.,) as also آهٍ, (IAmb, K,) and آهًا, and ↓ آهَةً , (TA,) and ↓ أَوْهِ , (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ أَوْهَ , (ISd, K,) and ↓ أَوْهُ , (K,) and ↓ أَوِّهْ , (S,) or ↓ أَوِّهِ , (K,) and ↓ أَوَّهْ , (Hr, Mgh, Msb, K,) so in some copies of the S, but in a copy in the author's handwriting ↓ آوَّهْ , there said to be with medd, and with teshdeed and fet-h to the و, and with the ه quiescent, (TA,) [or,] accord. to Aboo- Tálib, آوَّهْ, with medd, thus pronounced by the vulgar, is wrong, (T in art. او,) and ↓ أَوَّاه , and ↓ أَوُّوه , [in both of which, and in some other forms which follow, it is doubtful whether the ه be quiescent or movent, and if movent, with what vowel,] (TA,) and ↓ آوُوهُ , (K, TA,) or ↓ أَوُوهُ , but said by ISd to be with medd, and mentioned by AHát as heard from the Arabs, (TA,) and ↓ أَوَتَاه , (K, TA,) or ↓ أَوَتَاهُ , (CK,) or ↓ أَوَّتَاه , and ↓ آوَّتَاه , (S, [in one copy of which the ه is marked as quiescent,]) and ↓ آوَيَّاه , (K, TA,) with medd, (TA,) or ↓ أَوِيَّاهُ , (CK,) and أَوِّ (S, Msb, K,) and آوِ, and آوٍ, (K, TA,) and وَاهًا, and هَاهٌ or هَاهُ, (TA,) [Ah! or alas!] a word imitative of the voice, cry, or exclamation, of the مُتَأَهِّه; (Az and TA in explanation of آهِ;) [i. e.] a word expressive of pain, grief, sorrow, lamentation, complaint, or moaning; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) denoting the prolongation of the voice with complaint: (S, TA, after أَوَّهْ or آوَّهْ:) sometimes, also, a man says آهِ from a motive of affection, or pity, or compassion, and of impatience: (Az, TA:) [and it is also said that] آهًا is a word expressive of grief or lamentation, or of most intense grief or lamentation or regret; [that] it is put in the accus. case as being used in the manner of inf. ns.; and [that] the hemzeh is originally و: but IAth says, آهًا is a word expressive of pain, grief, sorrow, lamentation, complaint, or moaning, used in relation to evil, like as وَاهًا is used in relation to good: (TA in art. اه:) and آوَّهْ and آوِ and آوٍ are cries uttered to horses, to make them return. (ISh and TA in art. اوى. See 2 in that art. in the present work.) You say, آهِ مِنْ كَذَا [Ah, or alas, on account of, or for, such a thing!]; (S, Msb;) and in like manner, أَوْهِ [&c.], followed by مِنْ, and by لِ, (S, TA,) and by عَلَى. (TA.) [See also أَوِّ in art. او.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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