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dah en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /dɑː/

Etymology

Imitative

Meanings

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

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Relateds

dit

Translations (3)

ja ツー (spoken representation of a dash) · ru тире́ (spoken representation of a dash) · fr ta (spoken representation of a dash)

dah en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /dɑː/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:
   • 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. 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 22”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

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