name
Meaning 1
One’s father.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- Dad told me to go out and mow the lawn.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Daddy, Father
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dad
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/dæd/
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homophone: dad
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rhymes with -æd
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homophone: Dad
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CMU ARPABET: D AE1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
Topics: lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: DA4
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A father, a male parent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- His dad was always there for him.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ayr, ba, baba, da, dad, dada, daddio, daddy, father, fatherling, governor, old man, pa, pap, papa, papa bear, papaw, pappaw, pappy, pater, patriarch, paw, pawpaw, peepaw, pepaw, pop, poppa, poppy, pops, sire
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Happy Father's Day, dad!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pop, pappa, pater, paw
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Used to address an older adult male.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: daddio, pop, pops
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A lump or piece.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A blow; act of striking something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in digital but mixed in analog before being mastered to a digital medium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: sound engineering
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
Acronym of diffuse alveolar damage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
Acronym of Dutch angel dragon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang
Topics: lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To be a father to; to parent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To act like a dad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 14
To throw against something; to dash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: father, male parent, begetter
History
Etymology
Proprialisation of dad.
From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).
From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic.
Across languages
Translations
196 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: pa — informal: a father
- Afrikaans: papa — informal: a father
- Albanian: babi — informal: a father
- Southern Altai: ада (ada) — informal: a father
- Arabic: بَابَا (bābā) — informal: a father
- Armenian: պապա (papa) — informal: a father
- Assamese: বাবা (baba) — informal: a father
- Azerbaijani: dədə — informal: a father
- Bashkir: атай (atay) — informal: a father
- Basque: aitatxo — informal: a father
- Belarusian: та́та (táta) — informal: a father
- Belarusian: ба́ця (bácja) — informal: a father
- Bengali: বাবা (baba) — informal: a father
- Bulgarian: та́тко (tátko) — informal: a father
- Catalan: papa — informal: a father
- Catalan: papà — informal: a father
- Chinese Cantonese: 阿爸 (aa3 baa1) — informal: a father
- Chinese Cantonese: 爸爸 (baa1 baa1) — informal: a father
- Chinese Cantonese: 爹哋 (de1 di6) — informal: a father
- Chinese: баба (baba) — informal: a father
- Chinese: де (diə) — informal: a father
- Chinese: дада (dada) — informal: a father
- Chinese: ада (ada) — informal: a father
- Chinese Mandarin: 爸爸 (bàba) — informal: a father
- Chinese Mandarin: 爸 (bà) — informal: a father
- Chinese Mandarin: 爹 (diē) — informal: a father
- Chukchi: атэ (atė) — informal: a father
- Chukchi: татай (tataj) — informal: a father
- Czech: tatínek — informal: a father
- Dutch: pappa — informal: a father
- Esperanto: paĉjo — informal: a father
- Estonian: issi — informal: a father
- Estonian: taat — informal: a father
- Ewe: baba — informal: a father
- Faroese: babba — informal: a father
- Finnish: isi — informal: a father
- Finnish: iskä — informal: a father
- Finnish: isukki — informal: a father
- Finnish: isäukko — informal: a father
- Finnish: faija — informal: a father
- French: papa — informal: a father
- Galician: papá — informal: a father
- Galician: pai — informal: a father
- Galician: papai — informal: a father
- Georgian: მამა (mama) — informal: a father
- German: Papa — informal: a father
- German: Papi — informal: a father
- German: Vati — informal: a father
- German: attu — informal: a father
- German: attò — informal: a father
- Greek: μπαμπάς (bampás) — informal: a father
- Ancient Greek: πάππας (páppas) — informal: a father
- Hebrew: אַבָּא (aba) — informal: a father
- Hindi: बाप (bāp) — informal: a father
- Hindi: अब्बा (abbā) — informal: a father
- Hindi: पापा (pāpā) — informal: a father
- Hindi: बाबा (bābā) — informal: a father
- Hindi: बापू (bāpū) — informal: a father
- Hindi: पिताजी (pitājī) — informal: a father
- Hungarian: apa — informal: a father
- Hungarian: apu — informal: a father
- Icelandic: pabbi — informal: a father
- Ido: papa — informal: a father
- Irish: deaide — informal: a father
- Irish: daid — informal: a father
- Italian: papà — informal: a father
- Italian: babbo — informal: a father
- Italian: pà — informal: a father
- Japanese: お父さん (otōsan) — informal: a father
- Japanese: パパ (papa) — informal: a father
- Japanese: 父 (chichi) — informal: a father
- Kannada: ಅಪ್ಪ (appa) — informal: a father
- Karakalpak: ataqay — informal: a father
- Kazakh: әке (äke) — informal: a father
- Khmer: ឳ (’əv) — informal: a father
- Korean: 아빠 (appa) — informal: a father
- Korean: 아버지 (abeoji) — informal: a father
- Kyrgyz: атаке (atake) — informal: a father
- Kyrgyz: аке (ake) — informal: a father
- Latgalian: tēte — informal: a father
- Latgalian: tēteite — informal: a father
- Latin: tata — informal: a father
- Latvian: tētis — informal: a father
- Lithuanian: tėtis — informal: a father
- Louisiana Creole: pap — informal: a father
- Louisiana Creole: papa — informal: a father
- Louisiana Creole: papi — informal: a father
- Louisiana Creole: popa — informal: a father
- Lushootseed: babaʔ — informal: a father
- Macedonian: тато (tato) — informal: a father
- Macedonian: тате (tate) — informal: a father
- Macedonian: татко (tatko) — informal: a father
- Malayalam: അച്ഛന് (acchaṉ) — informal: a father
- Malayalam: ബാപ്പ (bāppa) — informal: a father
- Marathi: बाबा (bābā) — informal: a father
- Marathi: पप्पा (pappā) — informal: a father
- Marshallese: baba — informal: a father
- Mazanderani: بابا (baba) — informal: a father
- Mongolian: аав (aav) — informal: a father
- Classical Nahuatl: tata — informal: a father
- Norwegian Bokmål: pappa — informal: a father
- Iranian Persian: پِدَر (pedar) — informal: a father
- Iranian Persian: بابا (bâbâ) — informal: a father
- Iranian Persian: باب (bâb) — informal: a father
- Pipil: -tēku — informal: a father
- Polish: tata — informal: a father
- Polish: tato — informal: a father
- Polish: tatuś — informal: a father
- Portuguese: papá — informal: a father
- Portuguese: papai — informal: a father
- Portuguese: pai — informal: a father
- Romanian: tată — informal: a father
- Russian: па́па (pápa) — informal: a father
- Russian: тя́тя (tjátja) — informal: a father
- Russian: ба́тя (bátja) — informal: a father
- Russian: ба́тюшка (bátjuška) — informal: a father
- Russian: па́почка (pápočka) — informal: a father
- Sanskrit: तात (tāta) — informal: a father
- Serbo-Croatian: та̏та — informal: a father
- Serbo-Croatian: tȁta — informal: a father
- Slovak: tatko — informal: a father
- Slovak: tatík — informal: a father
- Slovak: otecko — informal: a father
- Slovene: oče — informal: a father
- Slovene: očka — informal: a father
- Slovene: tata — informal: a father
- Slovene: ata — informal: a father
- Spanish: papá — informal: a father
- Swahili: baba — informal: a father
- Swedish: pappa — informal: a father
- Tagalog: ama — informal: a father
- Tajik: дада (dada) — informal: a father
- Tajik: дадо (dado) — informal: a father
- Tamil: தந்தை (tantai) — informal: a father
- Tamil: அப்பா (appā) — informal: a father
- Telugu: నాన్న (nānna) — informal: a father
- Telugu: అయ్యా (ayyā) — informal: a father
- Thai: พ่อ (pɔ̂ɔ) — informal: a father
- Turkish: baba — informal: a father
- Turkmen: däde — informal: a father
- Tz'utujil: tata’ — informal: a father
- Ukrainian: та́то (táto) — informal: a father
- Ukrainian: тату́сь (tatúsʹ) — informal: a father
- Ukrainian: та́тко (tátko) — informal: a father
- Ukrainian: не́ньо (nénʹo) — informal: a father
- Urdu: بابا (bābā) — informal: a father
- Urdu: اَبّا (abbā) — informal: a father
- Urdu: باپ (bāp) — informal: a father
- Urdu: دادا (dādā) — informal: a father
- Uzbek: dada — informal: a father
- Vietnamese: bố — informal: a father
- Vietnamese: ba — informal: a father
- Vietnamese: cha — informal: a father
- Vietnamese: thầy — informal: a father
- Vietnamese: tía — informal: a father
- Volapük: fatül — informal: a father
- Welsh: tad — informal: a father
- Welsh: tada — informal: a father
- Welsh: dad — informal: a father
- Yiddish: טאַטע (tate) — informal: a father
- Yucatec Maya: tata — informal: a father
- Arabic: أبي — familiar address of one's own father
- Arabic: بابا — familiar address of one's own father
- Bashkir: атай (atay) — familiar address of one's own father
- Ndzwani Comorian: ɓɓangu — familiar address of one's own father
- Esperanto: paĉjo — familiar address of one's own father
- Finnish: isi — familiar address of one's own father
- French: papa — familiar address of one's own father
- German: Papa — familiar address of one's own father
- German: Papi — familiar address of one's own father
- German: Vati — familiar address of one's own father
- Hebrew: אַבָּא (ába) — familiar address of one's own father
- Irish: deaide — familiar address of one's own father
- Irish: daid — familiar address of one's own father
- Italian: papà — familiar address of one's own father
- Italian: babbo — familiar address of one's own father
- Italian: pà — familiar address of one's own father
- Japanese: お父さん (otōsan) — familiar address of one's own father
- Louisiana Creole: pap — familiar address of one's own father
- Louisiana Creole: papa — familiar address of one's own father
- Louisiana Creole: papi — familiar address of one's own father
- Louisiana Creole: popa — familiar address of one's own father
- Māori: e para — familiar address of one's own father
- Marshallese: baba — familiar address of one's own father
- Polish: tata — familiar address of one's own father
- Polish: tato — familiar address of one's own father
- Polish: tatuś — familiar address of one's own father
- Portuguese: papá — familiar address of one's own father
- Russian: па́па (pápa) — familiar address of one's own father
- Russian: тя́тя (tjátja) — familiar address of one's own father
- Russian: ба́тя (bátja) — familiar address of one's own father
- Russian: ба́тюшка (bátjuška) — familiar address of one's own father
- Spanish: papá — familiar address of one's own father
- Finnish: pappa — informal address for an older male
- Finnish: setä — informal address for an older male
- Russian: папа́ша (papáša) — informal address for an older male