dah

Etymology 1

Imitative

noun

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

Etymology 2

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

noun

  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.
    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. 1922, Rudyard Kipling, What Happened, lines 33–36

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