ahan
French, noun/a.ɑ̃/
ahan is spelled A-H-A-N (4 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ahan is a French masculine noun meaning “pain due to manual labour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peine de corps, grand effort, tel que celui d’un homme qui fend du bois ou qui lève un pesant fardeau”.
What does ahan mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedmasculinepain due to manual labour
- 2
masculinegroan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peine de corps, grand effort, tel que celui d’un homme qui fend du bois ou qui lève un pesant fardeau. 2. Gémissement dans l’effort.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ahan
- ahans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ahan?
- /a.ɑ̃/
- \a.ɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ahan in French?
ahan appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).