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Definition: Dah |
DahNoun1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dah" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DAH | English | D-aspartic acid B-hydroxamate | Medicine |
DAH | French | Département des affaires humanitaires | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DahSynonym: dash (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dah |
| Etymologies containing "dah": Day. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dah" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Ambari hemp, Bimli jute, Bimlipatam jute, Gambo hemp, Hibiscus hemp, Kenaf, Meshta, Papoula de Sao Francisco, Siam jute), Serbo-Croatian (breath, puff, whiff, wind). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm not listening anymore, doo dah, doo dah (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster) | |
Lyrics | Dah, dah, dah (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler); performing artist: Marvin Gaye) Dah etc, whooo etc (Mean Old World; performing artist: Robert Palmer) Dee dah la dee dah la dee dah la (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON) La dee dah. (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON) Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yaddie and Dah (1999) Dah Dit Dah (1996) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Mauritania | In November French judicial proceedings continued in absentia against Captain Ely Ould Dah, a Black Moor charged with torturing two Halpulaar in the country in 1990 and 1991 who later gained political refugee status in France. (references) |
Mauritania | Ould Dah was arrested in France in 1999 under the International Convention Against Torture despite a general amnesty passed by Parliament in 1993, and he fled France in April 2000 while awaiting trial after being released on bail. (references) | |
France | In May the Montpelier District Court sent the case of Ely Ould Dah for trial in absentia to the Court of Assizes; two Mauritanian refugees accused Dah of inflicting torture on them in 1990 and 1991. Dah was detained for questioning in 1999 and released. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dah" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Dah" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 69.23% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.92% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Dah Hwa International (Holdings) Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dah": Dah-dah-dah-dum, dah-dum. | |
Ending with "dah": Ab-u-dah, dee-dah, Dee-dah-dah, Dippety-doo-dah, doo-dah, la-di-dah, lah-de-dah, lah-di-dah, poof-dah, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah. | |
Containing "dah": dee-dah-dee-dah-dum. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hon dah casino | 27 | dah zippity | 3 |
zip a dee doo dah | 20 | dah han.com links | 3 |
hon dah | 14 | dah parade | 3 |
dah | 13 | dah doo zippety | 3 |
hon dah resort | 12 | arizona dah hon | 3 |
bank dah sing | 12 | dah dee zip | 3 |
dah doo parade | 10 | dah sing | 2 |
casino dah hon resort | 9 | dah ta | 2 |
dah.com hon | 9 | dah han.com | 2 |
dah nabila tercemar | 5 | chong dah hong | 2 |
bonzo dog doo dah band | 5 | dah habibi | 2 |
dah dee doo lyrics zip | 5 | dah scrappity | 2 |
dah doo zippity | 4 | dah hon pow wow | 2 |
tah dah | 4 | dah kalamazoo parade | 2 |
dah doo zippidy | 4 | dah doo lyrics zippity | 2 |
columbus dah doo parade | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Hibiscus cannabinus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dah": dahabeah, dahabeahs, dahabiah, dahabiahs, dahabieh, dahabiehs, dahabiya, dahabiyas, dahl, dahlia, dahlias, dahls, dahoon, dahoons, dahs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dah": chuddah, haggadah, houdah, howdah, keddah, khedah, pardah, purdah, verandah, whidah, whydah. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dah": chuddahs, haggadahs, houdahs, howdahs, keddahs, khedahs, pardahs, purdahs, verandahed, verandahs, whidahs, whydahs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dah" (pronounced du") |
| 2 | d u" | Duh. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: had. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h" | |
-1 letter: ad, ah, ha. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h" | |
+1 letter: chad, dahl, dahs, dash, dhak, dhal, hade, hadj, haed, hand, hard, head, shad. | |
+2 letters: aahed, ached, ahead, ahold, aphid, ashed, chads, chard, dacha, dahls, dashi, dashy, deash, death, dhaks, dhals, hadal, haded, hades, hadji, hadst, haled, halid, hands, handy, hards, hardy, hared, hated, hawed, hayed, hazed, heads, heady, heard, hexad, hoard, hodad, honda, hydra, jehad, jihad, khadi, kheda, sadhe, sadhu, shade, shads, shady, shard. | |
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