Imitative
dah (pluraldahs)
- Thespokenrepresentation of adash inradio andtelegraphMorse code.
spoken representation of a dash
FromBurmeseဓား(dha:). Possibly adoublet ofdao.
dah (pluraldahs)
- (Myanmar) A longknife orsword with a round cross-sectiongrip, a long, gently curvingblade with a single edge, and no guard.
1922,Rudyard Kipling,What Happened[1], lines33–36: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 hisdah-blade from the scabbard.
1934 October,George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 22”, inBurmese 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 curveddah glittering.
Clipping ofsudah, fromMalaydah. In the interjection sense,false cognate ofRussianда(da,“yes”).
dah
- good,okay
dah
- (colloquial)perfective aspect
FromDutchdag(“goodbye”), fromMiddle Dutchdach, fromOld Dutchdag, fromProto-Germanic*dagaz. This word was originally spelleddag as in Dutch, but the final-g is replaced by-h and the form becomes archaic, but not in the wordmag, were it always pronounced with final/h/ or/x/.
dah
- bye,good bye
FromMalaydah. Compare toOld Javanesedadah(“sacrifice”).
dah (pluraldah-dah)
- (obsolete)service,duty
- Synonyms:dinas,jasa
Apheresis ofsudah.
dah (Jawi spellingده)
- (informal)Clipping ofsudah.
dah
- (colloquial)Marks theperfective aspect.
1932 December 26, Ibni, “Melayu Tak Boleh Maju”, inMajlis[2], Singapore, archived fromthe original on24 November 2023, page 7:Jikalau zaman itu dibuka Pekan-Pekan Mingguan, bukankah senang pada masa ini? Anak-anak Melayudah 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.
- “dah” inPusat 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
dah
- up,off, at anelevation, setoff
- dah yooʼááł ―he’s holding it up
- dahdiilwod ―he started off at a run
dāh m (nominative pluraldāgas)
- Alternative form ofdāg
Stronga-stem:
dah
- (Brazil, Internetslang)Alternative spelling ofdá
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*dъxъ.
dȁh m (Cyrillic spellingда̏х)
- breath
- breathing,respiration
- stench,odor
- “dah”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025
From the plural ofProto-Samic*tātë(“this”). Cognates includePite Samidáh(“these”).
dah
- they
This pronoun needs aninflection-table template.
FromProto-Tai*daːᴮ(“river”). Cognate withThaiท่า(tâa,“pier”),Laoທ່າ(thā,“pier”),Lüᦑᦱᧈ(taa¹,“pier”),Shanတႃႈ(tāa,“pier; shallow place in water”).
dah (Sawndip forms汏or㳠or𭰃or他or驮or𭯾or⿲氵马犬or䭾,1957–1982 spellingdaƅ)
- river
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dah (Sawndip forms𡚻or𰌄or𫰋or驮or妖,1957–1982 spellingdaƅ)
- Classifier for young females.
dah
- bell
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013)A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page44
