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語源 1

Imitative

名詞

dah (plural dahs)

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

参考

• dit

語源 2

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

別の表記

• dao, dha, dow

名詞

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

     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.

アナグラム

• DHA, dha, HDA, had, AHD, ADH

名詞

dāh m (nominative plural dāgas)

1. alternative form of dāg

語形変化

Strong a-stem: