dah

See also: daH

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɑː/
Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

Imitative

Noun

dah (plural dahs)

The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.

Translations

spoken representation of a dash

French: ta (fr) m
Japanese: ツー (tsū)

Russian: тире́ (ru) n (tirɛ́)

Etymology 2

From Burmese ဓား (dha:)

Alternative forms

dha

Noun

dah (plural dahs)

(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.

Anagrams

ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, had

Indonesian

Adjective

dah

good, okay

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dah/, [dah]

Numeral

dah

ten

Malay

Etymology

Shortened sudah.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

dah

Done!

Navajo

Pronunciation

Audio (NV) (file)

Adverb

dah

up, off, at an elevation, set off

dah yooʼááł ― he’s holding it up

dah diilwod ― he started off at a run

Derived terms

bikááʼdahʼasdáhí (“chair, seat, bench”)
dah alzhin (“dot, speck; minute (of time”)
dah azką́ (“mesa”)
dah díníilghaazh (“frybread”)

dah iistłʼǫ́ (“loom”)
dah naʼatʼaʼí (“flag”)
dah woozh (“strawberry”)

Old English

Alternative forms

dāg, dōh, daag

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Compare Old High German teig (German Teig), Old Norse deig (Danish dej, Swedish deg), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːh/, [ˈdɑːx]

Noun

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

dough

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Verb

dah

(Internet slang) Alternative spelling of dá

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dâx/

Noun

dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

Declension

Declension of dah

	singular	plural
nominative	dȁh	dȁhovi/dȁsi
genitive	daha	dahova/dasa
dative	dahu	dahovima/dasima
accusative	dah	dahove/dase
vocative	daše / dahu	dahovi/dasi
locative	dahu	dahovima/dasima
instrumental	dahom	dahovima/dasima

References

“dah” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Southern Sami

Pronoun

dah

they

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

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