वह

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वह

/ʋəɦ/ Hindi, Standard
[ʋɛʱ] Hindi, Standard
/wəɦ/ Hindi, Standard
[wɛʱ] Hindi, Standard
/ʋoː/ Hindi, Standard
/woː/ Hindi, Standard

Where it comes from

Uncertain, but most likely from Old Hindi उहु (uhu), उहुं (uhuṃ), from Apabhramsa ओहु (ohu), from Prakrit अहो (aho), from Sanskrit अ॒सौ m (asáu, “that”). The inflected forms are formed by analogy with its proximal counterpart यह (yah) or with सो (so) ~ तिस (tis), the archaic third-person pronoun eclipsed by this term.

More information

For Old Hindi वो (vo), Chatterji suggested a derivation from Apabhramsa ओ (o), from Sanskrit *अव (*ava), attested in अवोष् (avoṣ), अवोर् (avor, “of you both”, gen. du.), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *avá. He suggested the term not being preserved in literature but continuing to be spoken. Compare Avestan 𐬀𐬬𐬀 (ava).

Note that the second etymology explains plural वे (ve) as well, while the first does not. See there for more.

pronoun vah · وہ · वह · वे · उस · उन

demonstrative that वह मकान बड़ा है।
demonstrative, distal he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun) वह छोटा है।

In English

it subject — inanimate thing
that what is being indicated
he personal pronoun "he"
she person
they third-person singular, of unknown, irrelevant, or non-binary gender

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {वह},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hi/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B9},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}