• IPA: /dɑː/

dah (plural dahs)

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

• French: ta
• Russian: тире́

From Burmese ဓား.

dah (plural dahs)

1. (Burma) 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.