Chad

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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæd/
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /t͡ʃad/
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• SSB Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• New-Zealand: /t͡ʃɛd/
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• rhymes with -æd
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• homophone: chad
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• homophone: Chad
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• CMU ARPABET: CH AE1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From ch- + had, from ich + had.

From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century. The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan slang.

Believed to be from Kanuri tsade (“lake”). The country is named after the lake.

Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (“louse”). The word predates the chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin, and a derivation from Scots chad (“river gravel”) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Tsjad — country
• Amharic: ቻድ (čad) — country
• Arabic: تْشَاد (tšād) — country
• Chadian Arabic: تشاد (tšād) — country
• Arabic: تْشَاد (tšād) — country
• Armenian: Չադ (Čʻad) — country
• Asturian: Chad — country
• Azerbaijani: Çad — country
• Belarusian: Чад (Čad) — country
• Bengali: চাদ (cad) — country
• Breton: Tchad — country
• Bulgarian: Чад (Čad) — country
• Burmese: ချဒ် (hkyad) — country
• Catalan: Txad — country
• Cherokee: ᏣᏗ (tsadi) — country
• Chinese Mandarin: 乍得 (Zhàdé) — country
• Czech: Čad — country
• Danish: Tchad — country
• Dinka: Cad — country
• Dutch: Tsjaad — country
• Esperanto: Ĉado — country
• Estonian: Tšaad — country
• Faroese: Kjadd — country
• Faroese: Kjad — country
• Finnish: Tšad — country
• French: Tchad — country
• Georgian: ჩადი (čadi) — country
• German: Tschad — country
• Greek: Τσαντ (Tsant) — country
• Hausa: Cādì — country
• Hebrew: צ׳אד (chad) — country
• Hindi: चाड (cāḍ) — country
• Hungarian: Csád — country
• Icelandic: Tsjad — country
• Interlingua: Chad — country
• Irish: Sead — country
• Italian: Ciad — country
• Japanese: チャド (Chado) — country
• Kalenjin: Chad — country
• Kamba: Chad — country
• Kazakh: Чад (Çad) — country
• Kazakh: Ташад (Taşad) — country
• Khmer: ឆាដ (chaat) — country
• Kikuyu: Chad — country
• Korean: 차드 (Chadeu) — country
• Korean: 챠드 (Chadeu) — country
• Kyrgyz: Чад (Cad) — country
• Lao: ຊາດ (sāt) — country
• Latvian: Čada — country
• Limburgish: Tchad — country
• Lithuanian: Čadas — country
• Luhya: Chad — country
• Luo: Chad — country
• Macedonian: Чад (Čad) — country
• Malayalam: ഛാഡ് (chāḍŭ) — country
• Maltese: iċ-Ċadd — country
• Māori: Kāta — country
• Meru: Chad — country
• Mongolian: Чад (Čad) — country
• Norman: Tchad — country
• Norwegian: Tsjad — country
• Persian: چاد (čâd) — country
• Polish: Czad — country
• Portuguese: Chade — country
• Romanian: Ciad — country
• Russian: Чад (Čad) — country
• Sango: Sâde — country
• Scottish Gaelic: Siad — country
• Serbo-Croatian: Ча̑д — country
• Serbo-Croatian: Čȃd — country
• Shan: မိူင်းၶျၢတ်ႈ (móeng khjāat) — country
• Sicilian: Ciad — country
• Sinhalese: චෑඩ් (cǣḍ) — country
• Slovak: Čad — country
• Slovene: Čád — country
• Spanish: Chad — country
• Swahili: Chadi — country
• Swedish: Tchad — country
• Tagalog: Tsad — country
• Tajik: Чад (Čad) — country
• Tamil: சாட் (cāṭ) — country
• Thai: ชาด (châat) — country
• Tigrinya: ቻድ (čad) — country
• Turkish: Çad — country
• Turkmen: Çad — country
• Ukrainian: Чад (Čad) — country
• Urdu: چاڈ (cāḍ) — country
• Uyghur: چاد (chad) — country
• Uzbek: Chad — country
• Vietnamese: Sát — country
• Welsh: Tsiad — country
• Wolaytta: Chaadde — country
• Yoruba: Ṣáàdì — country
• Chinese Mandarin: 乍得湖 (Zhàdéhú) — lake
• French: Tchad — lake
• Irish: Loch Shead — lake
• Lithuanian: Čadas — lake
• Macedonian: Чад (Čad) — lake
• Polish: Czad — lake
• Portuguese: Chade — lake
• Russian: Чад (Čad) — lake
• Tamil: சாட் (cāṭ) — lake
• Tamil: சாட் ஏரி (cāṭ ēri) — lake
• Chinese Mandarin: 打孔 (dǎkǒng) — small pieces of paper punched out
• German: Stanzrest — small pieces of paper punched out
• German: Stanzabfall — small pieces of paper punched out
• Chinese Mandarin: 孔屑 — one of these pieces of paper
• German: Stanzrest — one of these pieces of paper
• German: Stanzabfall — one of these pieces of paper