Meanings
dah1
plural dahs
- The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
dah2
plural dahs · alternative dao · alternative dha · alternative dow
- MyanmarA long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard.
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, →OCLC1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
dah · noun
- Burmeseဓား
- Englishdah
From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao.
More words from Burmese
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French ta
- taspoken representation of a dash
Japanese ツー
- ツー (tsū)spoken representation of a dash
Russian тире́
- тире́ (tirɛ́)spoken representation of a dash
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dah
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Cite this entry
dah. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dah
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