dah
nounEtymology From Burmese ဓား (dha:). Possibly a doublet of dao.
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Myanmar A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard.
- 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.1922, Rudyard Kipling, What Happened, lines 33–36:
- 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.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 22”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC: