Dha
Burmese knife
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- Type
- saber
Dha (Burmese: ဓား; also spelled dah) is a Burmese word meaning "knife" or "sword" which conventionally refers to a wide variety of bladed weapons used across Southeast Asia, especially present-day Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Yunnan, Laos, Cambodia, and Northeast India. It is related to the Thai word for a single-edged sword, daab/darb (Thai: ดาบ).
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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