English

Noun

dah ‎(plural dahs)

1. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
2. (Burma) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard.
   • 1922, Rudyard Kipling, "What Happened", lines 33-36,

     Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace, / Abdul Huq, Wahabi, jerked his dagger from its place, / While amid the jungle-grass danced and grinned and jabbered / Little Boh Hla-oo and cleared his dah-blade from the scabbard.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22,

     It was like a sea of people, two thousand at the least, black and white in the moon, with here and there a curved dah glittering.

Alternative forms

• (knife or sword) dha

Translations

See also

• dit

Anagrams

• ADH
• AHD
• DHA
• had

Indonesian

Adjective

dah

1. good, okay

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dah/, [dah]

Numeral

dah

1. ten

Malay

Etymology

Shortened sudah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dah/
• Rhymes: -dah, -ah

Adjective

dah

1. Done!

Navajo

Pronunciation

Adverb

dah

1. up, off, at an elevation, set off

   dah yooʼááł‎ ― he’s holding it up

   dah diilwod‎ ― he started off at a run

Derived terms

Old English

Alternative forms

• dag

Noun

dah

1. dough

Descendants

• Middle English: dagh, dogh, dow
  • English: dough
  • Scots: daich

Portuguese

Verb

dah

1. (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of dá

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dâx/

Noun

dȁh m ‎(Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

1. breath
2. breathing, respiration
3. stench, odor

Declension

References

• “dah” in Hrvatski jezični portal