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dahs

dahs is the plural of dah.

Meaning of dah

Noun (1)

dah (plural dahs)

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

Noun (2)

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.
    • 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

Questions about dahs

What is dahs the plural of?
Dahs is the plural of dah.

Words near dahs in the dictionary

  1. Dahomey
  2. Dahomeyan
  3. Dahomeyans
  4. dahoon
  5. dahoons
  6. dahs
  7. dahsala
  8. dahshala
  9. dahu
  10. Dahur
  11. Dahuria

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