different between cah vs dah

English

Noun

cah (plural cahs)

1. (US, Eastern Massachusetts) Pronunciation spelling of car.

Anagrams

• -cha, ACH, CHA, Cha, HAC, HCA, ach, cha

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan [Term?], from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *katïC (“sit”).

Verb

cah (irregular)

1. to be (somewhere)

Conjugation

• This verb is irregular; it has the plural (present) form cateh.

References

• Michel Launay; Christopher Mackay (2011) An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Amazon Kindle: Cambridge University Press, pages Loc 1586

K'iche'

Noun

cah

1. (Classical K'iche') sky

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cath, from Primitive Irish ????? (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).

Noun

cah m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. battle

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Imitative

Noun

dah (plural dahs)

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

Translations

See also

• dit

Etymology 2

From Burmese ??? (dha:)

Alternative forms

• dha

Noun

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, [1]

     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, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22, [2]

     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.

Anagrams

• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, had

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Clipping of sudah

Adjective

dah

1. good, okay

Etymology 2

From Dutch dag (“bye”)

Interjection

dah

1. bye

Malay

Etymology

Shortened sudah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dah/
• Rhymes: -dah, -ah

Adjective

dah

1. done

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??h/

Adverb

dah

1. up, off, at an elevation, set off

Derived terms

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??x/

Noun

d?h m (nominative plural d?gas)

1. Alternative form of d?g

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

dah

1. (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of dá

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *d?x?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dâx/

Noun

d?h m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. breath
2. breathing, respiration
3. stench, odor

Declension

Derived terms

• odàhnuti (“to pause”)

References

• “dah” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Southern Sami

Etymology

From the plural of Proto-Samic *t?të (“this”). Cognates include Pite Sami dáh (“these”).

Pronoun

dah

1. they

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ta?/
• Tone numbers: da⁶
• Hyphenation: dah

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *da?? (“river”). Cognate with Thai ??? (tâa, “pier”), Lao ??? (th?, “pier”), Lü ??? (taa¹, “pier”), Shan ??? (t?a, “pier; shallow place in water”).

Noun

dah (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ???? or ? or ? or ???? or ?, old orthography da?)

1. river

Derived terms

• dahmbwn

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Classifier

dah (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ? or ?, old orthography da?)

1. Classifier for young females.

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??/

Noun

dah

1. bell

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 44