different between yah vs dah

English

Etymology 1

An alternative pronunciation, akin to yeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/, /j??/

Adverb

yah (not comparable)

1. (Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Yes.

   Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.

Translations

Interjection

yah

1. An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the pronunciation of “yes” which such people use.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/

Noun

yah (plural yahs)

1. (Britain, informal) An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.

Translations

Anagrams

• AYH, Hay, YHA, hay

Gullah

Etymology

Variant of yuh (“here”).

Adverb

yah

1. here

Malay

Pronunciation

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

Noun

yah

1. father (male parent)

Synonyms

• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

Manx

Interjection

yah?

1. Alternative form of yagh

Navajo

Etymology

Compare Carrier yoh (“house”)

Postposition

yah

1. inside, into an enclosed space, into an enclosure

Zhuang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ja?/
• Tone numbers: ya⁶
• Hyphenation: yah

Noun

yah (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography ya?)

1. wife
2. mother-in-law (husband's mother)
3. old woman; granny

Classifier

yah (old orthography ya?)

1. Classifier for elderly women.

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