# dah
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɑː

### Etymology 1

Imitative

#### Noun

dah (plural dahs)
* The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.

##### Translations
#### See also

* dit

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* dao, dha, dow

#### Noun

dah (plural dahs)
* (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, 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

* DHA, dha, HDA, had, AHD, ADH

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdah]
* Hyphenation: dah
* Rhymes: -dah, -ah, -h

### Etymology 1

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

#### Interjection

dah
* good, okay

#### Particle

dah
* (colloquial) perfective aspect

### Etymology 2

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

dah
* bye, good bye

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

dah (plural dah-dah)
* (obsolete) service, duty
    Synonyms: dinas, jasa

### Further reading

* “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.

## Malay
### Etymology

Apheresis of sudah.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /da(h)/
* Rhymes: -dah, -ah

### Adverb

dah (Jawi spelling ده)
* (informal) Clipping of sudah.

### Particle

dah
* (colloquial) Marks the perfective aspect.
** 1932 December 26, Ibni, “Melayu Tak Boleh Maju”, in Majlis‎, 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

* “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

## Navajo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑ̀h/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

dah
* up, off, at an elevation, set off
    dah yooʼááł ― he’s holding it up
    dah diilwod ― he started off at a run

#### Derived terms

* bikááʼdahʼasdáhí (“chair, seat, bench”)
* dah alzhin (“dot, speck; minute (of time”)
* dah azką́ (“mesa”)
* dah díníilghaazh (“frybread”)
* dah iistłʼǫ́ (“loom”)
* dah naʼatʼaʼí (“flag”)
* dah woozh (“strawberry”)
* hódah
* wódah

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɑːx/

### Noun

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)
* Alternative form of dāg

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

## Portuguese
### Verb

dah
* (Brazil, Internet slang) Alternative spelling of dá

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dâx/

### Noun

dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)
* breath
* breathing, respiration
* stench, odor

#### Derived terms

* odàhnuti (“to pause”)
* zȁdāh

### References

* “dah”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Southern Sami
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

dah
* they

#### Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ta˧/
* Tone numbers: da$^6$
* Hyphenation: dah

### Etymology 1

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

dah (Sawndip forms 汏 or 㳠 or 𭰃 or 他 or 驮 or 𭯾 or ⿲氵马犬 or 䭾, 1957–1982 spelling daƅ)
* river

##### Derived terms

* dahmbwn

### Etymology 2

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

#### Classifier

dah (Sawndip forms 𡚻 or 𰌄 or 𫰋 or 驮 or 妖, 1957–1982 spelling daƅ)
* Classifier for young females.

## Zou
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daʔ˧/

### Noun

dah
* bell

### References

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