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:). Possibly a doublet of dao.

• dao, dha, dow

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.

• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, had

• IPA^(key): [ˈdah]
• Hyphenation: dah
• Rhymes: -dah, -ah, -h

Clipping of sudah, from Malay dah.

dah

1. good, okay

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/.

dah

1. bye, good bye

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

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

1. (obsolete) service, duty

   Synonyms: dinas, jasa

• “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.

Apheresis of sudah.

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

dah (Jawi spelling ده)

1. (informal) Clipping of sudah.

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 [would] already have all the wisdom about business.

• “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

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̀h/

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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

• IPA^(key): /dɑːx/

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

1. Alternative form of dāg

dah

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

• IPA^(key): /dâx/

dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

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

• odàhnuti (“to pause”)

• “dah” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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

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 (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

• dahmbwn

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

1. Classifier for young females.

• IPA^(key): /daʔ˧/

dah

1. bell

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