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^[1], 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.

• DHA, dha, HDA, had, AHD, ADH

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

Clipping of sudah, from Malay dah. In the interjection sense, false cognate of Russian да (da, “yes”).

dah

1. good, okay

dah

1. (colloquial) perfective aspect

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^[2], 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/

• Audio:

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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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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