dah

• IPA^(key): /dɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Imitative

dah (plural dahs)

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

• dit

From Burmese ဓား (dha:)

• dha

dah (plural dahs)

1. (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.

• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, had

dah

1. good, okay

Shortened sudah.

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

dah

1. Done!

• Audio (NV)

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dah

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

   dah yooʼááł ― he’s holding it up

   dah diilwod ― he started off at a run

• dāg, dōh, daag

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːh/, [ˈdɑːx]

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

1. dough

• Middle English: dogh, douȝh, dowgh, dagh, dow, dowhȝ, doghȝe, doȝ, douw
  • English: dough (dialectal duff)
  • Scots: daich, dauch
  • Yola: doaugh, dhoaugh

dah

1. (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of dá

From Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

• IPA^(key): /dâx/

dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

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

• “dah” in Hrvatski jezični portal

dah

1. they

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ta˧/
• Tone numbers: da⁶
• Hyphenation: dah

From Proto-Tai *daːᴮ (“river”). Cognate with Thai ท่า (tâa, “pier”), Lao ທ່າ (thā, “pier”), Lü ᦑᦱᧈ (taa¹, “pier”), Shan တႃႈ (tāa, “pier; shallow place in water”).

dah (old orthography daƅ, Sawndip forms 汏, 㳠, 𭰃, 他, 驮, 𭯾, 䭾)

1. river

• dahmbwn

dah (old orthography daƅ, Sawndip forms 𡚻, 𫰋, 驮, 妖)

1. Classifier for young females.