- (kwo) South Korea

- (exklami, kwo) ha-ha, a sound made in imitation of laughter |

fai ha-ha - laugh |

See also: ridi, hi-hi

- (kwo) (piece of) news |

Arabic

- (zwo) inhabit; dwell, live |

nu habiti in toy gata - we live in that street |

habita - (kwo) habitation |

habitilok - (kwo) habitation (place) (apartment is "flat") |

habitibile - (kwel) habitable |

buhabiti-ney (buhabiten) - (kwel) uninhabited

- (kwo, syao) half |

pa haf - by half, in half |

haf-dey - (kwo) half a day |

haf-ora - (kwo) half an hour |

haf-luma - (kwo) twilight |

mah-haf - (zwo) halve

- (kwo) hyphen

- (zwo) heal, cure |

German

- (taim-komo) still, as yet, so far |

Me haishi bu he zwo se. - I have not done this yet. |

Lu haishi safari. - He still travels. |

Me es haishi ausen urba. - I am still out of town. |

(cf. "yoshi") |

Mandarin

- (zwo) hew, hack, chop, cut |

haki ligna - chop wood |

haki bay zian - cut with a sword |

hakimarka - (kwo) notch

- (zwo) try (examine by judicial process) |

hakma - (kwo) (court) trial |

hakmiwat - (kwo) defendant, the accused, prisoner at the bar |

Swahili

- (kwo) circumstance; circumstances |

al tal halat - under such circumstances |

Arabic

- (kwo) ring (a circumscribing object) |

aurhalka - (kwo) earring |

harhalka - (kwo) lock, curl, ringlet |

halka-ney - (kwel) annular, ring-shaped |

halkafinga - (kwo) ring finger (finger between middle finger and little finger) |

halka-dansa - (kwo) round danse |

fai halka-dansa - to sing and dance in a ring |

Arabic

- (kwo) hallo (used also over the telephone)

- (kwo) halva |

Arabic

- (kwo) ham (food)

- (kwo) hammock |

Bulgarian

- (komo) almost |

Me jan hampi olo om to. - I know almost everything about it. |

Li es hir, hampi oli. - They are here, almost everyone. |

Indonesian

- (kwo) hammer |

hamri - (zwo) hammer

- (zwo) whisper |

hamsa - (kwo) whisper |

Arabic

- (kwo) hamster

- 1) (kwel, kwo) Chinese (relating to ethnicity, language or country) |

hanjen - (kwo) Chinese (person of Chinese ethnicity) |

hanlingwa - (kwo) Chinese language (Syn.: putunhua) |

2) khan |

See also: Jungwo

- (kwo) hand |

handagunsa - handwork |

handi - (zwo) hand (to give or pass with the hands)

- (kwo) ditch, trench |

Arabic

- (kwo) swan |

Hindi

- (kwo) Chinese characters, Hanzi |

Mandarin

- (kwel, komo) good; well |

Me sta hao. - I am OK. |

Hao!- Good, OK! |

Es hao. - That's good. |

haotaa - (kwo) good |

fo haotaa de jenley - for the welfare of mankind |

lucha de haotaa e baditaa - struggle of the good and the evil |

Bi hao! - 1) You are welcome! (a reply to thanking); 2) Bless you! (after smb's sneezing); 3) Good luck! (when parting) |

Hao aksham! - Good evening! |

Hao dey! - Good day! |

Hao fortuna! - Good luck! |

Hao nocha! - Good night! |

Hao sabah! - Good morning! |

Hao safara! - Have a good trip! |

Mandarin

- (kwel) coherent |

(Origin: hao+hunti+ney)

- (kwo) hair, hairs (chevelure) |

harinka - (kwo) a single hair |

harhalka - (kwo) lock, curl, ringlet |

frentahar - (kwo) fringe (part of the hair that hangs down over the forehead) |

galsahar - (kwo) mane |

(cf. "mao") |

Afrikaans

- (kwo) harem |

Turkish

- (zwo) expectorate |

Hindi

- (kwo) harmony |

harmoni - (zwo) harmonize (be in agreement, be harmonious) |

harmonike - (kwel) harmonious |

harmonisi - (zwo) harmonize (v.tr.)

- (kwo) hashish |

Arabic

- (kwo) defeat, loss |

fai hasima - to be defeated |

Arabic

- (zwo) be in a hurry |

hasti-muvi - bustle, move hastily |

hasta - (kwo) hurry, haste |

pa hasta - hastily, in haste, hurriedly |

hasta-ney (haste) - (kwel) hasty, hurried

- (kwo) peasant house (esp. in Ukraine and Russia) |

Ukrainian

- (exklami) hi!

- (gramatika) let, may (wish; leave) |

Hay Forsa bi kun yu! - May the force be with you! |

Hay oni shwo to ke oni yao. - Let them say what they like. |

(cf. "ba") |

Slavic

- (gramatika) past tense marker |

Me he yo lekti sey kitaba. - I have already read this book. |

Yu bu he audi ku? - Haven't you heard?

- (kwo) pick, hack

- (kwo) helicopter |

Bislama

- (kwo) helmet |

Czech

- (zwo) help |

helpa - (kwo) help |

helpi koywan - to help smb |

kun helpa de - with the help of |

voki helpa - call for help |

helpike - (kwel) auxiliary |

helpalingwa - (kwo) auxiliary language

- (kwo) blood |

hema-vasa - blood vessel |

hema-sosis - blood sausage, blood pudding |

hema-pyasa-ney - blood-thirsty |

hema-ney, hemaful - (kwel) bloody |

hemi - (zwo) bleed |

heming - (kwo) bleeding, haemorrhage |

Greek

- (zwo) hate |

hena - (kwo) hatred |

henival - (kwel) odious |

Mandarin

- (kwo) henry |

sto milihenri - one hundred millihenries

- (kwo) liver (organ)

- (kwo) grass; herb |

lekiherba - (kwo) medicinal herb(s) |

herbinka - (kwo) a blade of grass

- (zwo) inherit, be the heir to; succeed (to) |

heredi koysa fon koywan - inherit smth from smb |

hereda - (kwo) heritage; inheritance |

hereder - (kwo) heir

- (kwel) hermetic, sealed, airtight |

hermetem - (komo) hermetically |

hermetisi - (zwo) make hermetic |

dehermeta - (kwo) depressurization

- (kwo) hero |

herolik - (kwel) heroic |

heroisma - (kwo) heroism

- (zwo) hesitate, falter |

hesita - (kwo) hesitation

- (sta) have |

Me hev dwa kitaba. - I have two books. |

en-hev - (zwo) come to possess |

hevsa - (kwo) possession; property, belongings

- (exklami) hey! (used to attract attention)

- (gramatika) "exactly, it's...that" (emphasizes the previous word) |

nau hi - right now |

Den se hi me yao shwo. - This exactly I want to say. |

Me hi zwo-te se. - It's me who did it. |

Sey rasma bu es jamile. - Es jamile hi! - This drawing is not beautiful. - Yes it is! |

Non hi! - No, no way! |

Ya hi. - Yes, to be sure. Certainly. |

Es toy hi jen. - It's that very person. |

Me bu jan wen ta lai e ob ta lai hi. - I don't know when he comes and if he comes at all. |

Bu hi go! - Mind you, don't go! |

Hindi

- (exklami, kwo) tee-hee |

fai hi-hi - (zwo) chuckle, giggle, titter, snigger

- (kwo) hieroglyph |

hieroglifike - (kwo) hieroglyphic |

hieroglifike skriba - hieroglyphic writing |

See also: hanzi

- (zwo) stagger, be unsteady, sway, reel |

dushman en-hili - the enemy wavered |

Hindi

- (kwo) winter |

hima geimes - the winter games |

Hindi

- (kwo) henna |

Arabic

- (kwel, kwo) Indian (relating to Indians [of India], their language and country); Indian (person of Indian ethnicity); Hindi

- (kwo) hypothesis

- (loko-komo) here |

Lu es hir. - He is here. |

Hir es hao. - It's good here. |

Lai hir. - Come here. |

Figaro hir, Figaro dar. - Figaro's here, Figaro's there. |

hir-ney - (kwel) of this place, local

- (kwo) deer |

yunhiran - (kwo) young deer, fawn |

gin-hiran - (kwo) doe, female deer |

man-hiran - (kwo) buck, male deer |

hiranmasu - (kwo) venison |

Hindi

- (zwo) hiss |

hisa, hising - (kwo) hissing

- (kwo) hysteria |

histerike - (kwel) hysterical

- (kwo) tissue (anat., biol.) |

Greek

- (kwo) history (the aggregate of past events; science; record or narrative description) |

historike - (kwel) historic |

historier - (kwo) historian |

Swahili

- (exklami) hm, ahem

- (kwo) hobby (activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time) |

Serbo-Croatian

- (kwo) hawk (predatory bird) |

Bislama