dah
/dɑː/
dah noun: the spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Noun (1)
dah (plural dahs)
- The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Noun (2)
dah (plural dahs)
- A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard.
- 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.1922, Rudyard Kipling, What Happened, lines 33–36
- 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.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 22”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC
dah meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Kannada and Punjabi
dah in Bengali
- দাহ
dah in Telugu
- దహ్
dah in Kannada
- ದಹ್
dah in Punjabi
- ਦਾਹ
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Forms of dah
| plural | dahs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | dao |
| alternative form | dha |
| alternative form | dow |
Origin of dah
Imitative
From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao.
Words that rhyme with dah
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Moskva
- Nansha
- rah
- shikar
- ah
- aha
- alhamdulillah
- Amapá
- Benoit
- Bogotá
- fa
- galah
- goombah
- huzzah
- inshallah
- Jah
- la
- lah-di-dah
- ma
- moire
- mudra
- ménage à trois
- na
- omertà
- ooh la la
- pa
- schwa
- shah
- Shangri-La
- sis boom bah
- ta
- wah
- Xisha
- 'za
- allah
- ar
- arthra
- Aymara
- baa
- bah
- Bogota
- boyar
- bra
- cha
- cha cha cha
- chamar
- che sara sara
- chicken paw
Questions about dah
- What does dah mean?
- Dah means the spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
- What is dah in Bengali?
- Dah in Bengali is দাহ. See Dah meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is dah?
- Dah is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dah?
- Dah is pronounced /dɑː/.
- What is the plural of dah?
- The plural of dah is dahs.
Words near dah in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dah (page history and authors); dah (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dah (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dah (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dah (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dah (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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