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3-letter words (2 found)

DAH,HAD,

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AD,AH,DA,HA,

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Definitions and meaning of dah

dah

Translingual

Symbol

dah

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Gwahatike.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Gwahatike terms

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

Imitative

Noun

dah (plural dahs)

  1. 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)

  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.

Anagrams

  • DHA, dha, HDA, had, AHD, ADH

Achang

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) /da˦˧/

Particle

dah

  1. Connects a possessor to something it is possessing.
  2. Connects a relative clause to a noun phrase it modifies.

Further reading

  • Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎[2], Payap University, page 21

Haida

Noun

dah

  1. cranberry

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [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

  1. good, okay

Particle

dah

  1. (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

  1. bye, good bye
    Synonyms: dadah, dah-dah

Etymology 3

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

Noun

dah (plural dah-dah)

  1. (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(key): /da(h)/
  • Rhymes: -dah, -ah

Adverb

dah (Jawi spelling ده)

  1. (informal) clipping of sudah

Particle

dah

  1. (colloquial) Marks the perfective aspect.

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(key): /tɑ̀h/

Adverb

dah

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

Derived terms

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑːx/

Noun

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

  1. alternative form of dāg

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Portuguese

Verb

dah

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъxъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dâx/

Noun

dȁh m (Cyrillic spelling да̏х)

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

Declension

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

  1. they

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ta˧/
  • Tone numbers: da6
  • 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)

  1. 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)

  1. Classifier for young females.

Zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daʔ˧/

Noun

dah

  1. bell

References

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

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