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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːld/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈʃɪj(ə)ld/
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• General-American: /ˈʃild/
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• /ˈʃiːʊd/ l-vocalization
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• [ˈʃɪi̯ʊd] l-vocalization
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• rhymes with -iːld
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• CMU ARPABET: SH IY1 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skyld (“shield”), Bavarian Schuid (“shield”), Dutch schild (“shield”), German and Low German Schild (“shield”), Luxembourgish Schëld (“shield”), Yiddish שילד (shild, “shield”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjold (“shield”), Elfdalian stjöld (“shield”), Faroese skjøldur (“shield”), Gutnish skiåld (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”), Swedish sköld (“shield”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus, “shield”). Compare Breton skoed (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Scottish Gaelic sgiath (“shield”), Latin scūtum (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Belarusian шчыт (ščyt, “shield”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian щит (ščyt, “shield”), Czech and Slovak štít (“shield”), Macedonian штит (štit, “shield”), Polish szczyt (“shield”), Serbo-Croatian штит, štit, ščit (“shield”), Slovene ščit (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”).

An alteration of Middle English schilden after Etymology 1, from Old English sċildan, from Proto-West Germanic *skildijan, form Proto-Germanic *skildijaną.

385 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Acehnese: peurisè — armor
• Afar: gob — armor
• Afrikaans: skild — armor
• Albanian: mburojë — armor
• Albanian: shqyt — armor
• Southern Altai: калка кӧлгӧк (kalka) — armor
• Amharic: ጋሻ (gaša) — armor
• Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: balatag — armor
• Chungli Ao: jong — armor
• Arabic: مِجَنّ (mijann) — armor
• Arabic: تُرْس (turs) — armor
• Arabic: دِرْع (dirʕ) — armor
• Arabic: دِرع (dirʕ) — armor
• Aramaic: ܣܟܪܐ (sakkərā) — armor
• Arapaho: heeceiʼ — armor
• Armenian: վահան (vahan) — armor
• Eastern Arrernte: alkwerte — armor
• Assamese: ঢাল (dhal) — armor
• Asturian: escudu — armor
• Azerbaijani: qalxan — armor
• Bambara: nɛgɛbɛnnan — armor
• Bashkir: ҡалҡан (qalqan) — armor
• Basque: ezkutu — armor
• Basque: babes — armor
• Belarusian: шчыт (ščyt) — armor
• Bengali: ঢাল (ḍhal) — armor
• Binukid: kalasag — armor
• Breton: skoed — armor
• Bulgarian: щит (štit) — armor
• Burmese: ကာ (ka) — armor
• Buryat: халха (xalxa) — armor
• Carpathian Rusyn: щит (ščyt) — armor
• Catalan: escut — armor
• Cebuano: kalasag — armor
• Chichewa: chishango — armor
• Chinese Cantonese: 盾 (teon5) — armor
• Eastern Min Chinese: 盾 (dōng) — armor
• Hakka Chinese: 盾 (tún) — armor
• Chinese: 盾 (tún) — armor
• Chinese Mandarin: 盾 (dùn) — armor
• Chinese Mandarin: 盾牌 (dùnpái) — armor
• Northern Min Chinese: 盾 (dō̤ng) — armor
• Wu Chinese: 盾 — armor
• West Circassian: ашъо (ašwo) — armor
• Ngazidja Comorian: mbinga — armor
• Coptic: ϣⲉⲃϣⲓ (šebši) — armor
• Coptic: ⲑⲩⲣⲱⲛ (thurōn) — armor
• Cornish: skoos — armor
• Czech: štít — armor
• Dakota: waháchąka — armor
• Danish: skjold — armor
• Dutch: schild — armor
• Dyirbal: bigan — armor
• Egyptian: i-km-m-F27 (jkm) — armor
• Erzya: ваксар (vaksar) — armor
• Esperanto: ŝildo — armor
• Estonian: kilp — armor
• Faroese: skjøldur — armor
• Finnish: kilpi — armor
• French: bouclier — armor
• French: écu — armor
• Old French: escut — armor
• West-Frisian: skyld — armor
• Friulian: scût — armor
• Galician: escudo — armor
• Georgian: ფარი (pari) — armor
• German: Schild — armor
• German: Schilt — armor
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍃 (skildus) — armor
• Greek: ασπίδα (aspída) — armor
• Ancient Greek: ἀσπίς (aspís) — armor
• Ancient Greek: σάκος (sákos) — armor
• Ancient Greek: θυρεός (thureós) — armor
• Ancient Greek: λαισήϊον (laisḗïon) — armor
• Hausa: garkuwa — armor
• Hebrew: מָגֵן (magén) — armor
• Higaonon: kalasag — armor
• Hindi: ढाल (ḍhāl) — armor
• Hindi: कवच (kavac) — armor
• Hungarian: pajzs — armor
• Hunsrik: Schild — armor
• Icelandic: skjöldur — armor
• Ido: shildo — armor
• Indonesian: tameng — armor
• Interlingua: scuto — armor
• Irish: sciath — armor
• Italian: scudo — armor
• Japanese: 盾 (tate) — armor
• Kalmyk: халхц (xalxts) — armor
• Kannada: ಗುರಾಣಿ (gurāṇi) — armor
• Kannada: ಡಾಲು (ḍālu) — armor
• Karakalpak: qalqan — armor
• Kasem: cɩ-kwaŋa — armor
• Kasem: tɔn-tɩʋ — armor
• Kashmiri: سِپَر (sipar) — armor
• Kazakh: қалқан (qalqan) — armor
• Khmer: ខែល (khael) — armor
• Korean: 방패 (bangpae) — armor
• Kyrgyz: калкан (kalkan) — armor
• Lao: ແສງ (sǣng) — armor
• Lao: ໂລ່ (lō) — armor
• Latgalian: škīda — armor
• Latin: scutum — armor
• Latin: clipeus — armor
• Latin: parma — armor
• Latvian: vairogs — armor
• Latvian: šķīda — armor
• Ligurian: scûddo — armor
• Limburgish: sjèldj — armor
• Limburgish: sjildj — armor
• Lindu: kaliawo — armor
• Lingala: nguba — armor
• Lithuanian: skydas — armor
• Lombard: scud — armor
• Low German: Schild — armor
• Luganda: engabo — armor
• Luxembourgish: Schëld — armor
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — armor
• Malagasy: ampinga — armor
• Malay: perisai — armor
• Malayalam: പരിച (parica) — armor
• Maltese: tarka — armor
• Manx: scape — armor
• Māori: kahupeka — armor
• Marathi: ढाल (ḍhāl) — armor
• Middle English: scheld — armor
• Mongolian: бамбай (bambaj) — armor
• Classical Nahuatl: chīmalli — armor
• Classical Nahuatl: chimal — armor
• Classical Nahuatl: chimalli — armor
• Highland Puebla Nahuatl: chi̱mal — armor
• Nandi: loñg — armor
• Navajo: naagééh — armor
• Navajo: áchʼą́ą́h neilyéii — armor
• Nepali: कवच (kavac) — armor
• Ngunawal: bimbiang — armor
• Nhanda: wurnda — armor
• Nogai: калкан (kalkan) — armor
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjold — armor
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skjold — armor
• Occitan: escut — armor
• Occitan: bloquier — armor
• Old Occitan: escut — armor
• Church Slavic: щитъ (štitŭ) — armor
• Church Slavic: ⱋⰻⱅⱏ (štitŭ) — armor
• Old East Slavic: щитъ (ščitŭ) — armor
• Old English: sċield — armor
• Old Norse: skjǫldr — armor
• Omaha-Ponca: taháwagthe — armor
• Ossetian: уарт (wart) — armor
• Pannonian Rusyn: щит (ščit) — armor
• Pashto: سپر (spar) — armor
• Pashto: ډال (ḍāl) — armor
• Pennsylvania German: Schild — armor
• Penobscot: an̈gȣ̑ian — armor
• Iranian Persian: سِپَر (separ) — armor
• Middle Persian: 𐭮𐭯𐭥 (spar) — armor
• Middle Persian: 𐫖𐫃𐫏𐫗 (maginn) — armor
• Piedmontese: scu — armor
• Plautdietsch: Schilt — armor
• Polish: tarcza — armor
• Polish: szczyt — armor
• Polish: pawęża — armor
• Portuguese: escudo — armor
• Rohingya: dhál — armor
• Romagnol: scud — armor
• Romanian: scut — armor
• Romanian: pavăză — armor
• Russian: щит (ščit) — armor
• Sango: nguba — armor
• Sanskrit: कवच (kavaca) — armor
• Sanskrit: ढाल (ḍhāla) — armor
• Savosavo: ghora — armor
• Scottish Gaelic: sgiath — armor
• Serbo-Croatian: шти̑т — armor
• Serbo-Croatian: štȋt — armor
• Shor: қуйақ (quyaq) — armor
• Sicilian: scutu — armor
• Sinhalese: පලිහ (paliha) — armor
• Slovak: štít — armor
• Slovene: ščit — armor
• Lower Sorbian: šćit — armor
• Upper Sorbian: škit — armor
• Spanish: escudo — armor
• Spanish: chimal — armor
• Swahili: ngao — armor
• Swazi: lihawu — armor
• Swedish: sköld — armor
• Sylheti: ꠓꠣꠟ (ḍál) — armor
• Tabasaran: къалкан (q̄alkan) — armor
• Tagalog: kalasag — armor
• Tajik: сипар (sipar) — armor
• Tamil: கேடயம் (kēṭayam) — armor
• Tatar: калкан (qalqan) — armor
• Telugu: డాలు (ḍālu) — armor
• Tetum: kalili — armor
• Thai: โล่ (lôo) — armor
• Thai: เขน (kěen) — armor
• Tibetan: ཕུབ (phub) — armor
• Turkish: kalkan — armor
• Ottoman Turkish: قلقان (kalkan) — armor
• Ottoman Turkish: سپر (siper) — armor
• Ottoman Turkish: ترس (türs) — armor
• Ottoman Turkish: درقه (daraka) — armor
• Turkmen: galkan — armor
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎍𐎓 (qlʿ) — armor
• Ukrainian: щит (ščyt) — armor
• Urdu: ڈهال — armor
• Uyghur: قالقان (qalqan) — armor
• Uzbek: qalqon — armor
• Vietnamese: khiên — armor
• Vietnamese: lá chắn — armor
• Volapük: platäd — armor
• Wajarri: gurnda — armor
• Welsh: tarian — armor
• Middle Welsh: taryan — armor
• Middle Welsh: ysgwyt — armor
• Woiwurrung: mulga — armor
• Woiwurrung: gayaam — armor
• Woiwurrung: narragourt — armor
• Yiddish: שילד (shild) — armor
• Yucatec Maya: chimal — armor
• Arabic: وِقَايَه (wiqāyah) — anything that protects or defends
• Arabic: وِقَاء (wiqāʔ) — anything that protects or defends
• Bulgarian: защи́та (zaštíta) — anything that protects or defends
• Chinese Mandarin: 保護者 /保护者 (bǎohùzhě) — anything that protects or defends
• Chinese Mandarin: 防護物 /防护物 (fánghùwù) — anything that protects or defends
• Czech: štít — anything that protects or defends
• Czech: kryt — anything that protects or defends
• Danish: skjold — anything that protects or defends
• Danish: -skjold — anything that protects or defends
• Dutch: bescherming — anything that protects or defends
• Dutch: scherm — anything that protects or defends
• Esperanto: ŝirmilo — anything that protects or defends
• Estonian: kaitse — anything that protects or defends
• Finnish: suoja — anything that protects or defends
• Finnish: kilpi — anything that protects or defends
• French: bouclier — anything that protects or defends
• Galician: escudo — anything that protects or defends
• German: Schutz — anything that protects or defends
• Greek: ασπίδα (aspída) — anything that protects or defends
• Hebrew: מָגֵן (magén) — anything that protects or defends
• Hebrew: שִׁרְיוֹן (shiryon) — anything that protects or defends
• Hungarian: védelem — anything that protects or defends
• Icelandic: skjöldur — anything that protects or defends
• Indonesian: pelindung — anything that protects or defends
• Italian: scudo — anything that protects or defends
• Italian: protezione — anything that protects or defends
• Italian: rifugio — anything that protects or defends
• Italian: riparo — anything that protects or defends
• Italian: copertura — anything that protects or defends
• Korean: 보호물 (bohomul) — anything that protects or defends
• Korean: 보호자 (bohoja) — anything that protects or defends
• Latin: integumentum — anything that protects or defends
• Latvian: aizsargs — anything that protects or defends
• Latvian: ekrāns — anything that protects or defends
• Latvian: aizsegs — anything that protects or defends
• Lithuanian: apsauga — anything that protects or defends
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — anything that protects or defends
• Middle English: scheld — anything that protects or defends
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjold — anything that protects or defends
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjerm — anything that protects or defends
• Norwegian Bokmål: vern — anything that protects or defends
• Polish: osłona — anything that protects or defends
• Portuguese: escudo — anything that protects or defends
• Romanian: pavăză — anything that protects or defends
• Russian: защи́та (zaščíta) — anything that protects or defends
• Serbo-Croatian: шти̑т — anything that protects or defends
• Serbo-Croatian: štȋt — anything that protects or defends
• Slovak: štít — anything that protects or defends
• Slovak: kryt — anything that protects or defends
• Slovene: ščitnik — anything that protects or defends
• Spanish: escudo — anything that protects or defends
• Swedish: sköld — anything that protects or defends
• Swedish: skyddsplåt — anything that protects or defends
• Swedish: skärma — anything that protects or defends
• Tibetan: ཕུབ (phub) — anything that protects or defends
• Tibetan: འགེབས་སྲུང་ཡོ་ཆས ('gebs srung yo chas) — anything that protects or defends
• Turkish: kalkan — anything that protects or defends
• Ottoman Turkish: سپر (siper) — anything that protects or defends
• Welsh: aes — anything that protects or defends
• Bulgarian: защитник (zaštitnik) — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Bulgarian: закрилник (zakrilnik) — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Ngazidja Comorian: mbinga — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Czech: štít — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Dutch: beschermer — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Dutch: beschermster — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Finnish: kilpi — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Greek: ασπίδα (aspída) — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Romanian: protector — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Romanian: protectoare — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Romanian: scut — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Romanian: protectori — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Serbo-Croatian: шти̑т — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Serbo-Croatian: štȋt — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Swahili: ngao — figuratively, one who protects or defends
• Bulgarian: щит с герб (štit s gerb) — heraldry
• Dutch: wapenschild — heraldry
• Finnish: kilpi — heraldry
• French: écu — heraldry
• Galician: escudo — heraldry
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — heraldry
• Māori: hīra — heraldry
• Middle English: scheld — heraldry
• Russian: щит (ščit) — heraldry
• Swedish: vapensköld — heraldry
• Swedish: sköld — heraldry
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — mining
• Russian: щит (ščit) — mining
• Finnish: kilpi — a spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
• French: écu — obsolete: a coin, the old French crown, or écu
• Middle English: scheld — obsolete: a coin, the old French crown, or écu
• Dutch: schild — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Dutch: scherm — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Finnish: kilpi — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• French: bouclier — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Greek: ασπίδα (aspída) — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Polish: pole siłowe — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Russian: щит (ščit) — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Serbo-Croatian: štit — sci fi: a field of energy that protects or defends
• Bulgarian: полицейска значка (policejska značka) — colloquial: a police badge
• Dutch: badge — colloquial: a police badge
• Dutch: penning — colloquial: a police badge
• Finnish: kilpi — colloquial: a police badge
• Dutch: wegwijzer — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Dutch: plaat — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Finnish: kilpi — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Finnish: kyltti — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Finnish: numerokilpi — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Finnish: tiennumerokilpi — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Macedonian: штит (štit) — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Romanian: indicator (de circulație) — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Russian: щит (ščit) — transportation: a sign or symbol identifying a highway route.
• Arabic: وَقَى (waqā) — to protect, to defend
• Arabic: حَمَى (ḥamā) — to protect, to defend
• Bulgarian: защитавам (zaštitavam) — to protect, to defend
• Bulgarian: предпазвам (predpazvam) — to protect, to defend
• Chinese Mandarin: 保護 /保护 (bǎohù) — to protect, to defend
• Czech: chránit — to protect, to defend
• Danish: beskytte — to protect, to defend
• Dutch: afschermen — to protect, to defend
• Dutch: beschermen — to protect, to defend
• Dutch: verdedigen — to protect, to defend
• Esperanto: ŝirmi — to protect, to defend
• Estonian: kaitsma — to protect, to defend
• Finnish: suojata — to protect, to defend
• French: protéger — to protect, to defend
• Galician: protexer — to protect, to defend
• Galician: escudar — to protect, to defend
• German: beschützen — to protect, to defend
• Greek: προστατεύω (prostatévo) — to protect, to defend
• Greek: προφυλάσσω (profylásso) — to protect, to defend
• Icelandic: skýla — to protect, to defend
• Icelandic: hlífa — to protect, to defend
• Icelandic: vernda — to protect, to defend
• Indonesian: melindungi — to protect, to defend
• Italian: proteggere — to protect, to defend
• Japanese: 保護する (hogo suru) — to protect, to defend
• Korean: 을 보호하다 (eul bohohada) — to protect, to defend
• Latvian: aizsargāt — to protect, to defend
• Lithuanian: saugoti — to protect, to defend
• Macedonian: штити (štiti) — to protect, to defend
• Māori: ārai — to protect, to defend
• Māori: whakaruruhau — to protect, to defend
• Middle English: schilden — to protect, to defend
• Norwegian: skjerme — to protect, to defend
• Norwegian: verne — to protect, to defend
• Polish: osłaniać — to protect, to defend
• Portuguese: proteger — to protect, to defend
• Romanian: proteja — to protect, to defend
• Russian: защища́ть (zaščiščátʹ) — to protect, to defend
• Slovak: chrániť — to protect, to defend
• Slovene: ščititi — to protect, to defend
• Spanish: proteger — to protect, to defend
• Spanish: blindar — to protect, to defend
• Swedish: skydda — to protect, to defend
• Turkish: korumak — to protect, to defend
• Ottoman Turkish: قوریمق (korımak, korumak) — to protect, to defend
• Bulgarian: екранирам (ekraniram) — electricity: to protect from the influence of
• Dutch: afschermen — electricity: to protect from the influence of
• Galician: illar — electricity: to protect from the influence of
• Polish: ekranować — electricity: to protect from the influence of
• Polish: zaekranować — electricity: to protect from the influence of