bah
French, interjection/ba/
bah is spelled B-A-H (3 letters) and appears 76 times per million words in written French, the 1,112th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bah is a French interjection meaning “No” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Interjection dénotant le doute ou la négation”.
What does bah mean in English?
interjection
- 1
No.
Bah, bah, bah !
- 2
An exclamation to fill space, often used as an intensifier; well, err, um
Tu veux jouer aussi ?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. Interjection dénotant le doute ou la négation. 2. Interjection marquant la renonciation ou le rejet d'une idée par insouciance ou lâcher-prise. 3. Mot permettant au locuteur d’avoir le temps de réfléchir, de se décider. 4. Évidemment, bien sûr (que).
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.
How do you pronounce bah?
- /ba/
- \baː\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bah
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bah in French?
bah appears 76 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).