different between dah vs daw

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: door (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English dawe, from Old English d?we, from Proto-Germanic *d?h? (compare German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach), from Proto-Indo-European *d??k?- (compare Old Prussian doacke (“starling”)).

Noun

daw (plural daws)

1. A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew

     The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws / The whole assembly of his fellow daws.

   • […] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

     For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

2. (obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p.

     ‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.

Synonyms

• jackdaw (Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw, western jackdaw)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dawen, from Old English dagian (“to dawn”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag?n, from Proto-Germanic *dag?n? (“to become day, dawn”), from *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”). More at day, dawn.

Verb

daw (third-person singular simple present daws, present participle dawing, simple past and past participle dawed)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn.
2. (obsolete) To wake (someone) up.
3. (obsolete) To daunt; to terrify.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Derived terms

• adaw
• bedaw

Translations

Anagrams

• -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad

Bikol Central

Particle

daw

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

Matal

Verb

daw

1. to throw, cast

2. to sell

References

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• dao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dau/, [da??]
• (between vowels) IPA^(key): /?au/, [?a??]
• Rhymes: -aw

Particle

daw

1. Indicates something said by another person or group

Welsh

Alternative forms

• deith (colloquial)
• dêl (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /da?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /dau?/

Verb

daw

1. third-person singular present/future of dod

Mutation