dah

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Imitative

Noun

dah (plural dahs)

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

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Etymology 2

From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao.

Alternative forms

Noun

dah (plural dahs)

  1. (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.

Adjective

dah

  1. good, okay

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

  1. bye, good bye

Etymology 3

From Malay dah. Compare to Old Javanese dadah (“sacrifice”).

Noun

dah (first-person possessive dahku, second-person possessive dahmu, third-person possessive dahnya)

  1. (obsolete) service, duty
    Synonyms: dinas, jasa

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

Apheresis of sudah.

Pronunciation

Adverb

dah (Jawi spelling ده)

  1. (informal) Clipping of sudah.

Particle

dah

  1. (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 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, →DOI, →ISBN

Navajo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑ̀h/
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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

Derived terms

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

  1. Alternative form of dāg

Declension

Declension of dah (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative dāh dāgas
accusative dāh dāgas
genitive dāges dāga
dative dāge dāgum

Portuguese

Verb

dah

  1. (Brazil, Internet slang) Alternative spelling of dá

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

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

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

Derived terms

References

  • “dah” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Southern Sami

Etymology

From the plural of Proto-Samic *tātë (“this”). Cognates include Pite Sami dáh (“these”).

Pronoun

dah

  1. they

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

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)

  1. river
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Classifier

dah (Sawndip forms 𡚻 or 𰌄 or 𫰋 or 驮 or 妖, 1957–1982 spelling daƅ)

  1. Classifier for young females.

Zou

Pronunciation

Noun

dah

  1. bell

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 44
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