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rudd

name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ɹʌd/
  • rhymes with -ʌd
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  • CMU ARPABET: R AH1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

name

Meaning 2

A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.

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4

noun

Meaning 4

Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.

common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

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5

noun

Meaning 5

European freshwater fish resembling the roach

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Scardinius erythrophthalmus

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cyprinid, cyprinid fish

History

Etymology

Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".

Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h1rewdh- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka. Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: رُود (rūd) — surname
  • Bulgarian: Ръд (Rǎd) — surname
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拉德 (Lādé) — surname
  • Georgian: რადი (radi) — surname
  • Greek: Ραντ (Rant) — surname
  • Hebrew: ראד — surname
  • Hindi: रड (raḍ) — surname
  • Japanese: ラッド (Raddo) — surname
  • Korean: 러드 (reodeu) — surname
  • Macedonian: Рад (Rad) — surname
  • Persian: راد (râd) — surname
  • Russian: Радд (Radd) — surname
  • Serbo-Croatian: Рад — surname
  • Serbo-Croatian: Rudd — surname
  • Thai: รัดด์ (rát) — surname
  • Urdu: رۇد — surname
  • Albanian: lloskë — fish of genus Scardinius
  • Hungarian: kele — fish of genus Scardinius
  • Turkish: kızılkanat — fish of genus Scardinius
  • Azerbaijani: qızılüzgəc — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Bulgarian: червеноперка (červenoperka) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Carpathian Rusyn: бо́чіця (bóčicja) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Carpathian Rusyn: червленоо́чіця (červlenoóčicja) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Catalan: gardí — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Czech: perlín — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Dutch: rietvoorn — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Finnish: sorva — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • French: rotengle — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • German: Rotfeder — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Hungarian: vörösszárnyú keszeg — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Ingrian: pakkopää — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Irish: ruán — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Macedonian: црвеноперка (crvenoperka) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Polish: wzdręga — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Russian: краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Spanish: gardí — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Swedish: sarv — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Turkish: kızılkanat — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Ukrainian: краснопі́рка (krasnopírka) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
  • Ukrainian: червонопі́рка (červonopírka) — fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus