dah

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English

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Etymology 1

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Imitative

Noun

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dah (plural dahs)

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  1. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
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Etymology 2

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From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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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.

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Interjection

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dah

  1. good, okay

Particle

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dah

  1. (colloquial) perfective aspect

Etymology 2

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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/.

Interjection

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dah

  1. bye, good bye

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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

  1. (obsolete) service, duty
    Synonyms: dinas, jasa

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Malay

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Etymology

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Apheresis of sudah.

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Adverb

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dah (Jawi spelling ده)

  1. (informal) Clipping of sudah.

Particle

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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.

Further reading

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  • “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
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɑ̀h/
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Adverb

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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

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Derived terms

Old English

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Noun

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dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

  1. Alternative form of dāg

Declension

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Declension of dāh (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative dāh dāgas
accusative dāh dāgas
genitive dāges dāga
dative dāge dāgum

Portuguese

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Verb

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dah

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

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Noun

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dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

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

Declension

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Declension of dah
singular plural
nominative dȁh dȁhovi/dȁsi
genitive daha dahova/dasa
dative dahu dahovima/dasima
accusative dah dahove/dase
vocative daše / dahu dahovi/dasi
locative dahu dahovima/dasima
instrumental dahom dahovima/dasima

Derived terms

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References

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  • “dah”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Southern Sami

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Etymology

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

Pronoun

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dah

  1. they

Inflection

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Zhuang

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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”).

Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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Classifier

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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.

Zou

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Noun

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dah

  1. bell

References

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