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Dah

//dɑː// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
  2. 2
    A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. Myanmar

    "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."

  3. 3
    the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Imitative

Etymology 2

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

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