spade

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From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadô. Doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.

Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spắthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.

254 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: graaf — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Albanian: lopatë — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Albanian: kaci — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Southern Altai: кӱрек (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Arabic: مِجْرَفَة (mijrafa) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Arabic: مِجْرَف (mijraf) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Arabic: مِسْحَاة (misḥāh) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Armenian: բահ (bah) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Assamese: কোদাল (küdal) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Asturian: pala — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Azerbaijani: kürək — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Bashkir: көрәк (körək) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Belarusian: рыдлёўка (rydljówka) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Belarusian: лапа́та (lapáta) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Bengali: কোদাল (kōdal) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Budukh: бар — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Bulgarian: пра́ва лопа́та (práva lopáta) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Bulgarian: бел (bel) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Burmese: ဂေါ် (gau) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Carpathian Rusyn: аршув (aršuv) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Catalan: pala — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chechen: бел (bel) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chechen: баьхьа (bäḥra) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Cherokee: ᎠᎪᏕᏍᏗ (agodesdi) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chinese Mandarin: 鏟 /铲 (chǎn) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chinese Mandarin: 鏟子 /铲子 (chǎnzi) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chinese Mandarin: 鍬 /锹 (qiāo) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chinese Mandarin: 鐵鍬 /铁锹 (tiěqiāo) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chinese Mandarin: 鐵杴 /铁杴 (tiěxiān) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chinese Mandarin: 鍤 /锸 (chā) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Chuvash: кӗреҫе (kĕreś̬e) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Crimean Tatar: kürek — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Crimean Tatar: lesker — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Czech: rýč — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Danish: spade — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Dolgan: күрдьэк (kürcek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Dutch: schop — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Dutch: spade — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Dutch: schup — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Dutch: schep — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Esperanto: ŝpato — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Estonian: labidas — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Faroese: spaki — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Faroese: spaði — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Finnish: lapio — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• French: bêche — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• French: pelle — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Galician: pa — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Georgian: ბარი (bari) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• German: Spaten — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Greek: φτυάρι (ftyári) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ancient Greek: σκαφεῖον (skapheîon) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ancient Greek: σκαπάνη (skapánē) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ancient Greek: ἄμη (ámē) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Hawaiian: ʻōʻō — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Hebrew: אֵת (et) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Hindi: फावड़ा (phāvṛā) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Hindi: फ़ावड़ा (fāvṛā) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Hungarian: ásó — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Icelandic: skófla — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ido: spado — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Indonesian: sekop — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Indonesian: sodok — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Interlingua: pala — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Irish: spád — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Irish: rámhainn — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Irish: láí — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Italian: vanga — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Italian: badile — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Japanese: 鋤 (suki) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Japanese: スペード (supēdo) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Karachay-Balkar: кюрек (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Kazakh: күрек (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Khakas: кӱрӌек (kürcek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Khmer: ប៉ែល (pael) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Khmer: ត្រសេះ (trɑɑseh) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Khmer: ចប (cɑɑp) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Korean: 가래 (garae) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Kumyk: кюрек (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Northern Kurdish: merr — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Northern Kurdish: mer — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Kyrgyz: күрөк (kürök) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Lao: ກະຈອມປ້ອງ (ka chǭm pǭng) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Lao: ຊ້ວນ (sūan) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Lao: ສຽມ (sīam) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Lao: ຫລົ້ວ (lūa) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Latin: rutrum — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Latin: pāla — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Latvian: lāpsta — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Lezgi: ппер (p̄er) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Limburgish: sjöp — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Limburgish: spaad — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Lithuanian: kastuvas — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Luxembourgish: Schëpp — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Luxembourgish: Spuet — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Macedonian: ашов (ašov) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Malagasy: fangady — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Malagasy: fitetika — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Malagasy: angady — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Malay: sodok — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Maltese: mgħażqa — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Māori: kāheru — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Mazanderani: گرواز (gervâz) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Mongolian: хүрз (xürz) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠷᠵᠡ (kürǰe) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Norman: bêque — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Norwegian Bokmål: spade — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spade — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Occitan: palavèrs — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Persian: بیل (bil) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Piedmontese: vanga — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Plautdietsch: Spodem — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Polish: szpadel — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Polish: rydel — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Portuguese: pá — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Romanian: lopată — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Romanian: cazma — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Russian: штыкова́я лопа́та (štykovája lopáta) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Russian: лопа́та (lopáta) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Russian: за́ступ (zástup) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Scottish Gaelic: spaid — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Serbo-Croatian: ло̀пата — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Serbo-Croatian: а́шов — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Serbo-Croatian: lòpata — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Serbo-Croatian: ášov — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Shor: кӱрек (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Shor: кӱрчек (kürçek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Sinhalese: ඉස්කෝප්පය (iskōppaya) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Slovak: rýľ — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Slovene: lopata — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Slovincian: lôpata — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Spanish: pala — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Spanish: azada — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Sudovian: lopta — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Swedish: spade — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Tahitian: ʻō — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Tajik: бел (bel) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Talysh: خلیک (xəlik) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Tarifit: ařeyzim — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Tarifit: tqabut — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Tatar: көрәк (köräk) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Thai: เสียม (sǐiam) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Thai: พลั่ว (plûua) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Turkish: kürek — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Turkish: bel — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ottoman Turkish: كورك (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ottoman Turkish: بیل (bil) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Turkmen: bel — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ukrainian: лопа́та (lopáta) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Ukrainian: за́ступ (zástup) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Urdu: فَاوَڑَا (fāvaṛā) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Uyghur: گۈرجەك (gürjek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Uyghur: كۈرەك (kürek) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Uzbek: kurak — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Uzbek: belkurak — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Uzbek: bel — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Vietnamese: xẻng — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Vietnamese: xuồng — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Welsh: pâl — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Welsh: rhaw — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Woiwurrung: balarra — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Yakut: күрдьэх (kürjeq) — garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
• Albanian: maç — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Arabic: الْبَسْتُونِيّ (al-bastūniyy) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Armenian: ագռավ (agṙav) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Armenian: ղառ (ġaṙ) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Belarusian: пі́ка (píka) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Belarusian: пі́кі (píki) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Bulgarian: пи́ка (píka) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Burmese: ဖူး (hpu:) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Catalan: pica — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Chinese Cantonese: 葵扇 (kwai4 sin3) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑桃 (hēitáo) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Czech: pik — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Czech: piky — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Danish: spar — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Dutch: schoppen — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Dutch: schuppen — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Estonian: poti — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Estonian: pada — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Faroese: spaðari — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Faroese: spaðar — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Finnish: pata — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• French: pique — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Galician: pica — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Georgian: ყვავი (q̇vavi) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• German: Pik — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Greek: μπαστούνι (bastoúni) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Hebrew: עָלֶה ('alé) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Hindi: हुक्म (hukm) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Hungarian: pikk — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Icelandic: spaði — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Indonesian: sekop — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Interlingua: spada — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Irish: spéireata — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Italian: picche — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Japanese: スペード (supēdo) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Kazakh: қарға (qarğa) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Khmer: ប៊ិក (bɨk) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Korean: 스페이드 (seupeideu) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Kyrgyz: карга (karga) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Latvian: pīķi — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Lithuanian: pikai — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Luxembourgish: Schëppen — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Macedonian: пик (pik) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Macedonian: лист (list) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Maltese: spadi — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Mongolian: гил (gil) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Navajo: asbáala — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Norman: picl'ye — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Norwegian Bokmål: spar — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Ojibwe: biig — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Ojibwe: gichi-biig — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Persian: پیک (pik) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Polish: pik — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Polish: wino — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Portuguese: espada — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Romanian: pică — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Russian: пи́ка (píka) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Russian: пи́ки (píki) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Scottish Gaelic: spaid — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Slovak: pika — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Slovene: pik — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Spanish: pica — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Swahili: shupaza — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Swedish: spader — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Telugu: ఇస్పేటు (ispēṭu) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Thai: โพดํา (poo-dam) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Turkish: maça — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Ukrainian: пі́ка (píka) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Ukrainian: вино́ (vynó) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Ukrainian: пі́ки (píky) — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Unami: shkëp — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Uzbek: qargʻa — one of the black suits in a deck of cards
• Bulgarian: черни́лка (černílka) — black person
• Chinese Mandarin: 黑鬼 (hēiguǐ) — black person
• Danish: neger — black person
• Finnish: laku — black person
• Hungarian: negró — black person
• Hungarian: feka — black person
• Icelandic: surtur — black person
• Icelandic: negri — black person
• Icelandic: niggari — black person
• Icelandic: svertingjahundur — black person
• Icelandic: blámaður — black person
• Interlingua: negro — black person
• Italian: negro — black person
• Norwegian Bokmål: svarting — black person
• Portuguese: crioulo — black person
• Romanian: cioroi — black person
• Spanish: negro — black person
• Spanish: mulato — black person
• Swedish: neger — black person
• Swedish: svartskalle — black person