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Meaning of dah | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
dɑː

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Bosanski dah ta
Français dah ta
Hrvatski dah ta
日本語 ツー
Kurdî ta ta ta
Русский тире
Српски dah ta

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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