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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pæd/
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /pad/
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• New-Zealand: /pɛd/
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• rhymes with -æd
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• General-American: /ˌpi.eɪˈdi/
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle. Doublet of pode

From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.

Perhaps an alteration of ped.

Probably partly from Middle Low German pat, partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).

182 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: tassun — indicating soft footsteps
• Finnish: tissun-tassun — indicating soft footsteps
• Swedish: tass — indicating soft footsteps
• Bulgarian: подложка (podložka) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Chinese Mandarin: 墊 /垫 (diàn) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Chinese Mandarin: 墊子 /垫子 (diànzi) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Danish: hynde — flattened mass of anything soft
• Esperanto: kuseneto — flattened mass of anything soft
• Finnish: pehmuste — flattened mass of anything soft
• Finnish: tyyny — flattened mass of anything soft
• French: tampon — flattened mass of anything soft
• French: coussinet — flattened mass of anything soft
• French: coussinette — flattened mass of anything soft
• German: Unterlage — flattened mass of anything soft
• German: Polster — flattened mass of anything soft
• German: Kissen — flattened mass of anything soft
• German: Matte — flattened mass of anything soft
• German: Polsterung — flattened mass of anything soft
• Japanese: パッド (paddo) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Māori: kope — flattened mass of anything soft
• Norwegian: pute — flattened mass of anything soft
• Russian: подкла́дка (podkládka) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Russian: прокла́дка (prokládka) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Russian: поду́шечка (podúšečka) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Spanish: almohadilla — flattened mass of anything soft
• Spanish: pad — flattened mass of anything soft
• Swedish: sittunderlag — flattened mass of anything soft
• Ottoman Turkish: یاصدق (yasdık) — flattened mass of anything soft
• Finnish: tyynysatula — cushion used as saddle
• French: coussinet — cushion used as saddle
• German: Reitkissen — cushion used as saddle
• Bulgarian: възглавничка за диван (vǎzglavnička za divan) — soft or small cushion
• Danish: hynde — soft or small cushion
• Finnish: tyyny — soft or small cushion
• French: coussinette — soft or small cushion
• Ancient Greek: στοιβή (stoibḗ) — soft or small cushion
• Māori: paretua — soft or small cushion
• Norwegian: pute — soft or small cushion
• Russian: поду́шечка (podúšečka) — soft or small cushion
• Spanish: almohadilla — soft or small cushion
• Swedish: dyna — soft or small cushion
• Ottoman Turkish: یاصدق (yasdık) — soft or small cushion
• Chinese Mandarin: 肉墊 /肉垫 (ròudiàn) — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Chinese Mandarin: 爪墊 /爪垫 (zhuǎdiàn) — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Danish: trædepude — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Finnish: antura — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Finnish: polkuantura — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• French: coussinet — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• German: Polster — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• German: Ballen — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Japanese: 肉球 (nikukyū) — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Korean: 발볼록살 (balbolloksal) — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Korean: 육구 (yukgu) — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Spanish: callo — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Spanish: callosidad — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Swedish: trampdyna — cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals
• Albanian: mallth — animal's foot or paw
• Chinese Mandarin: 肉墊 /肉垫 (ròudiàn) — animal's foot or paw
• Finnish: tassu — animal's foot or paw
• Finnish: käpälä — animal's foot or paw
• French: coussinet — animal's foot or paw
• German: Pfote — animal's foot or paw
• Spanish: pata — animal's foot or paw
• Swedish: tass — animal's foot or paw
• Finnish: sormenpää — any cushion-like part of human body
• Finnish: tyyny — any cushion-like part of human body
• German: Ballen — any cushion-like part of human body
• German: Fettpolster — any cushion-like part of human body
• German: Polster — any cushion-like part of human body
• Finnish: pehmuste — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Schutzpolster — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Schoner — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Knieschoner — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Schienbeinschoner — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Unterlage — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Schutzunterlage — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Ellbogenschützer — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Ellenbogenschützer — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Knieschützer — stuffed guard or protection
• German: Kniepolster — stuffed guard or protection
• Māori: whakapuru — stuffed guard or protection
• Māori: paretua — stuffed guard or protection
• Māori: aupuru — stuffed guard or protection
• Finnish: antura — soft bag or cushion
• Finnish: tyyny — soft bag or cushion
• German: Stützpolster — soft bag or cushion
• German: Stütze — soft bag or cushion
• German: Nackenstütze — soft bag or cushion
• German: Kopfstütze — soft bag or cushion
• German: Armstütze — soft bag or cushion
• Italian: cercine — soft bag or cushion
• Italian: torsello — soft bag or cushion
• Māori: paretua — soft bag or cushion
• Bulgarian: плаващо листо (plavašto listo) — floating leaf of a water plant
• Finnish: kelluslehti — floating leaf of a water plant
• German: Seerosenblatt — floating leaf of a water plant
• Finnish: pehmuste — cricket: batsman's leg pad
• German: Schienbeinschoner — cricket: batsman's leg pad
• Finnish: lehtiö — block of paper
• French: bloc — block of paper
• German: Block — block of paper
• German: Schreibblock — block of paper
• German: Notizblock — block of paper
• German: Abreissblock — block of paper
• German: Schulblock — block of paper
• German: Schreibunterlage — block of paper
• German: Zeichenblock — block of paper
• German: Memoblock — block of paper
• German: Notizklotz — block of paper
• German: Quittungsblock — block of paper
• German: Rechnungsblock — block of paper
• Irish: ceap — block of paper
• Italian: blocco — block of paper
• Norwegian: blokk — block of paper
• Polish: blok — block of paper
• Portuguese: bloco — block of paper
• Spanish: bloc — block of paper
• Spanish: pad — block of paper
• Swedish: block — block of paper
• Finnish: levy — panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch
• Finnish: painike — panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch
• German: Kontaktmatte — panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch
• German: Graphiktablett — panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch
• German: Durchschreibepapier — panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch
• Finnish: näppäimistö — keypad
• French: pavé numérique — keypad
• French: clavier (de téléphone) — keypad
• German: Tastatur — keypad
• German: Klaviatur — keypad
• German: Klappenpolster — keypad
• Finnish: kenttä — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• German: Landeplatz — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• German: Startplattform — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• German: Starttisch — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• Irish: ceap — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• Russian: площа́дка (ploščádka) — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• Russian: стол (stol) — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• Swedish: helikopterlandningsplats — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• Swedish: landningsplats — flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched
• Finnish: jatkojohto — electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket
• Finnish: matto — music: effect produced by sustained lower reed notes
• Finnish: punkka — slang: bed
• French: pieu — slang: bed
• French: plumard — slang: bed
• French: plume — slang: bed
• French: paddock — slang: bed
• Swedish: binge — slang: bed
• Danish: hybel — colloquial: place of residence
• Finnish: luukku — colloquial: place of residence
• French: piaule — colloquial: place of residence
• French: taule — colloquial: place of residence
• Hungarian: kéró — colloquial: place of residence
• Hungarian: kecó — colloquial: place of residence
• Norwegian: hjem — colloquial: place of residence
• Russian: жилье (žilʹje) — colloquial: place of residence
• Russian: жилище (žilišče) — colloquial: place of residence
• Swedish: lya — colloquial: place of residence
• Swedish: krypin — colloquial: place of residence
• Swedish: kvart — colloquial: place of residence
• Finnish: tassutus — sound of soft footsteps
• Swedish: tassande — sound of soft footsteps
• Finnish: pehmustaa — to furnish with a pad or padding
• Finnish: topata — to furnish with a pad or padding
• French: rembourrer — to furnish with a pad or padding
• German: stopfen — to furnish with a pad or padding
• German: hineinstopfen — to furnish with a pad or padding
• Māori: whakapuru — to furnish with a pad or padding
• Spanish: acolchar — to furnish with a pad or padding
• Spanish: acolchonar — to furnish with a pad or padding
• Finnish: suurennella — figuratively: to fill or lengthen
• Finnish: paisutella — figuratively: to fill or lengthen
• Finnish: paikata — figuratively: to fill or lengthen
• German: füllen — figuratively: to fill or lengthen
• German: verlängern — figuratively: to fill or lengthen
• Spanish: meter floro — figuratively: to fill or lengthen
• Finnish: läpivärjätä — to imbue uniformly with a mordant
• Finnish: kulkea pitkin (jotakin) — to travel along sthg
• Finnish: tallata — to travel on foot
• Finnish: tallata — to wear a path by walking
• Finnish: tassutella — to walk softly, quietly or steadily
• German: tappen — to walk softly, quietly or steadily
• Swedish: tassa — to walk softly, quietly or steadily