dah

noun

1. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
2. (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.”

   “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.”