阿什哈巴特

Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan (Tw)

abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]

prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]

flatter

(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with

what

ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc) / assorted / miscellaneous

abbr. for 哈薩克斯坦|哈萨克斯坦[Ha1 sa4 ke4 si1 tan3], Kazakhstan / abbr. for 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Harbin

(interj.) ha! / (onom. for laughter) / (slang) to be infatuated with / to adore / abbr. for 哈士奇[ha1 shi4 qi2], husky (dog)

a Pekinese / a pug / (dialect) to scold

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan

to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician

special / unique / distinguished / especially / unusual / very / abbr. for 特克斯[te4 ke4 si1], tex