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  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Marik.
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From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”).

dad (plural dads)

  1. (informal) A father, a male parent.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father
    His dad was always there for him.
    • 2025 June 15, Madeline Holcombe, “How to be a dad to sons today, according to experts”, in CNN‎[2]:
      A lot of the power for dads comes in the form of modeling. As much as dads can teach their sons directly and guide them in the world, they also provide an example of who their children can aim to be as they grow up, Singley said.
      “There are going to be the times when as the dad I’m going to screw up,” he said.
  2. Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
    Synonyms: Dad, dada, daddy, pa, Pa, papa, pop, Pop, pappa, pater, paw
    Happy Father's Day, dad!
  3. (slang) Used to address an older adult male.
    Synonyms: daddio, pop, pops

informal: a father

familiar address of one's own father

dad (third-person singular simple present dads, present participle dadding, simple past and past participle dadded)

  1. To be a father to; to parent.

  2. To act like a dad.

  3. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Dad”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic.

dad (plural dads)

  1. A lump or piece.
  2. A blow; act of striking something.

dad (third-person singular simple present dads, present participle dadding, simple past and past participle dadded)

  1. (transitive) To throw against something; to dash.

dad (plural dads)

  1. Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”).

Inherited from Romani dad.

dad

  1. father
    Synonyms: daddarus, daddi, daddus
    Kai si chor dad?
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    Kon si chor dad?
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Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طات (dat), داد (dad), from Proto-Turkic *tātïg, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *tāt-. Cognate with Turkish tat, Bashkir тат (tat), Kazakh тәтті (tättı, “sweet, palatable”) Gagauz dat etc.

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

  1. taste
    Synonym: tam

Borrowed from Classical Persian داد (dād).

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

  1. (Classical Azerbaijani) justice
  2. (Classical Azerbaijani) court of justice
  3. (Classical Azerbaijani) equivalent, replacement
  4. (Classical Azerbaijani) punishment
  5. complaint, grievance

dad

  1. alas! woe!

Possibly from Arabic إِمْدَاد (ʔimdād), verbal noun of Arabic أَمَدَّ (ʔamadda).

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

  1. help, aid, assistance

dad m

  1. (Bugurdži, Crimea, Kosovo Arli, Macedonian Arli, Sofia Erli, Ursari) father
    Synonyms: (Bugurdži) babi, (Sofia Erli) baba

dad m

  1. (Litovska, Xaladitka) father

dad

  1. first-person singular subjunctive of doa (“to do”)
  2. third-person singular subjunctive of doa (“to do”)

The forms based on daad are used as an auxillary to form the subjunctive of verbs, which don't have a common subjunctive form. The usage corresponds to Standard German würde and English would.

dad

  1. Mutated form of tad.

dad m

  1. (Burgenland, East Slovakia, Gurvari, Hungarian Vend, Prekmurski, Romungro, Veršend) father

From Persian داد (dâd).

dad f

  1. justice

From Proto-West Germanic *dādi. Cognate with Old English dǣd, Dutch daad, Old High German tāt (German Tat).

dād f

  1. deed

dad m (plural dëd)

  1. clipping of dàdo (“a dear”)

Compare Hindi दादा (dādā, “grandfather, older brother”).[1]

dad m (accusative dades, nominative plural dada, accusative plural daden)

  1. father
    Synonym: (Dolenjski) tata
  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “dad”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 64ab

Akin to Irish dada, tada.

dad m

  1. anything, ought, (in the negative) nothing
    Synonyms: càil, func, heat, sgath, sìon, stuth
    Ciod e th' ort? Chan eil dad.
    What is wrong with you? Nothing.
  2. whit, jot, tittle

Mutation of dad

radical lenition
dad dhad

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

  1. ^ Ladefoged, Jenny; Ladefoged, Peter; Turk, Alice; Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996), “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics

dad m

  1. father

Compare Maay dad, Aweer dad, Rendille dod, Jiiddu yed, Daasanach -đat, Orma daddo (“community”), Saho dat (“meeting”).

dád m (definite dadka)

  1. people

Declension of dad

| | singular | | | ----------- | ----- | | absolutive | dád | | nominative | dad | | genitive | dád | | vocative | dadow |

dad

  1. second-person plural imperative of dar

Traveller Norwegian

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From Romani dad.

dad

  1. father

From Arabic ضَاد (ḍād).

dad

  1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ض

dad m

  1. (Banatiski Gurbet, Gurbet, Kalderaš, Lovara, Macedonian Džambazi, Sremski Gurbet) father
  2. (Sremski Gurbet) stepfather

dad

  1. soft mutation of tad

dad m

  1. father
  2. Roman Catholic priest
    Synonym: 'måro rašaj

Cognate to Silt'e [script needed] (dal).

dad

  1. (anatomy) abdomen