dah
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See also: daH
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
dah (plural dahs)
- The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao.
Alternative forms
Noun
dah (plural dahs)
- (Myanmar) 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 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 22”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- 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
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping of sudah, from Malay dah. In the interjection sense, false cognate of Russian да (da, “yes”).
Interjection
dah
Particle
dah
Etymology 2
From Dutch dag (“goodbye”), from Middle Dutch dach, from Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. This word was originally spelled dag as in Dutch, but the final -g is replaced by -h and the form becomes archaic, but not in the word mag, were it always pronounced with final /h/ or /x/.
Interjection
dah
Etymology 3
From Malay dah. Compare to Old Javanese dadah (“sacrifice”).
Noun
Further reading
- “dah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
dah (Jawi spelling ده)
Particle
dah
- (colloquial) Marks the perfective aspect.
- 1932 December 26, Ibni, “Melayu Tak Boleh Maju”, in Majlis, Singapore, archived from the original on 24 November 2023, page 7:
- Jikalau zaman itu dibuka Pekan-Pekan Mingguan, bukankah senang pada masa ini? Anak-anak Melayu dah tau ilmu berniaga kesemuanya.
- If back then Weekly Markets were opened, wouldn't it be easy by now? Malay children [would] already have all the wisdom about business.
Further reading
- “dah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Hooi, Ling Soh (2023 August) “On the discourse marker dah in Colloquial Malay (and sudah in Sabah Malay)”, in Hiroki Nomoto & Elin McCready, editors, Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II, London: Routledge, , →ISBN
Navajo
Pronunciation
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”)
- hódah
- wódah
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)
- Alternative form of dāg
Declension
Strong a-stem:
Portuguese
Verb
dah
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)
Declension
Derived terms
- odàhnuti (“to pause”)
- zȁdāh
References
- “dah”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Southern Sami
Etymology
From the plural of Proto-Samic *tātë (“this”). Cognates include Pite Sami dáh (“these”).
Pronoun
dah
Inflection
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ta˧/
- Tone numbers: da6
- Hyphenation: dah
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
dah (Sawndip forms 汏 or 㳠 or 𭰃 or 他 or 驮 or 𭯾 or ⿲氵马犬 or 䭾, 1957–1982 spelling daƅ)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Classifier
dah (Sawndip forms 𡚻 or 𰌄 or 𫰋 or 驮 or 妖, 1957–1982 spelling daƅ)
- Classifier for young females.
Zou
Pronunciation
Noun
dah
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 44
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