dah
Pronunciation Noun

dah (plural dahs)

  1. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
Translations
  • French: ta
  • Russian: тире́
Noun

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, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22,
      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.



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