name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
shad
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʃæd/
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CMU ARPABET: SH AE1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any bluefish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix.
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Usage: South-Africa
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noun
Meaning 4
herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: food fish, clupeid fish, clupeid
Narrower terms: common American shad, Alosa sapidissima, river shad, Alosa chrysocloris, allice shad, allis shad, allice, allis, Alosa alosa
noun
Meaning 5
bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fish
History
Etymology
* As an Urdu and Persian surname, from شاد (šâd, “glad, cheerful”). This surname is mostly found in Pakistan. * As an English surname, from the noun shad. * As a German surname, Americanized from Schade, itself related to Schaden (“damage”).
From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abenaki: wôbamakwsis — fishes of the herring family
- Arabic: شَابُل (šābul) — fishes of the herring family
- Basque: kolaka — fishes of the herring family
- Bulgarian: карагьоз (karagjoz) — fishes of the herring family
- Catalan: alosa — fishes of the herring family
- Dutch: elft — fishes of the herring family
- Finnish: täpläsilli — fishes of the herring family
- Finnish: silli — fishes of the herring family
- French: alose — fishes of the herring family
- Galician: sable — fishes of the herring family
- German: Maifisch — fishes of the herring family
- Hungarian: amerikai alóza — fishes of the herring family
- Hungarian: amerikai vándorhering — fishes of the herring family
- Hungarian: fint — fishes of the herring family
- Irish: sead f2 — fishes of the herring family
- Italian: agone — fishes of the herring family
- Italian: alosa — fishes of the herring family
- Lithuanian: alsė — fishes of the herring family
- Luxembourgish: Els — fishes of the herring family
- Luxembourgish: Meefësch — fishes of the herring family
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: psam — fishes of the herring family
- Mi'kmaq: msamu — fishes of the herring family
- Mi'kmaq: samu — fishes of the herring family
- Old English: sceadd — fishes of the herring family
- Polish: aloza — fishes of the herring family
- Portuguese: sável — fishes of the herring family
- Russian: шэд (šɛd) — fishes of the herring family
- Spanish: alosa — fishes of the herring family
- Spanish: sábalo — fishes of the herring family
- Swedish: majfisk — fishes of the herring family
- Unami: shëwanamèkw — fishes of the herring family
- Vietnamese: cá trích đầy mình — fishes of the herring family
- Welsh: gwangen — fishes of the herring family
- Welsh: gwengyn — fishes of the herring family