ha:- ha

ha ¦ ind. (prob. orig. identical with Ga, and used as a particle for emphasizing a preceding word, esp. if it begins a sentence closely connected with another; very frequent in the Brāhmaṇas and Sūtras, and often translatable by) indeed, assuredly, verily, of course, then &c. (often with other particles, e.g. with tv eva, u, sma, vE &c.; na ha, ‘not indeed’; also with interrogatives and relatives, e.g. yad Da, ‘when indeed’; kad Da, ‘what then?’ sometimes with impf. or pf. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 2, 116]; in later language very commonly used as a mere expletive, esp. at the end of a verse), RV.; &c.