dad

• IPA^(key): /dæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

From Middle English dadd, dadde, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Low German detta (“grandfather”).[1] Possibly from a metathetic variation of unrecorded Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”); or perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad, Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”).

• dadde (obsolete), dadda

dad (plural dads)

1. (informal) A father, a male parent.

   He hadn't seen his dad in years.

2. (familiar) Used to address one's father

   Happy Father's Day, Dad!

3. (slang) Used to address an older adult male

• (a father):
• (used to address one's father familiarly): dada, daddy, pa, Pa, papa, pop, Pop, papá, papà, pappa, pater, paw
• (used to address an older adult male): daddio, pop, pops

• mum, mom
• sire

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.

• AD&D, ADD, add, add.

From Proto-Turkic *dāt-. Cognate with Turkish tat, Bashkir тат (tat), Kazakh тәтті (tätti, “sweet, palatable”) etc.

• IPA^(key): [dɑd]

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

1. taste

• dadmaq (“to taste”)
• dadlı (“tasty”)

Derived compounded verbs:

• dadına baxmaq (“to taste, try”)
• dada gətirmək (“to make something enjoyable”)
• dadı qaçmaq (“to cease to be enjoyable”)

From Persian داد‎

• IPA^(key): [dɑːd]

dad (definite accusative dadi, plural dadlər)

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 (ʾimdād), verbal noun of Arabic أَمَدَّ‎ (ʾamadda)

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

1. help, aid, assistance

• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*dāt-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Абдуллајев Б. Т.; Оруҹов Ә. Ә.; Ширвани Ј. З., editors (1966), “дад”, in Әрәб вә фарс сөзләри лүғәти. [Dictionary of Arabic and Persian words], Baku: Азәрбајҹан ССР Елмләр Академијасы Нәшријјаты, page 134
• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “dad”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), volume I, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 507-508

dad

1. Mutated form of tad.

From Persian داد‎ (dad).

dad f

1. justice

From Proto-Germanic *dēdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis. Cognate with Old English dǣd, Dutch daad, Old High German tāt (German Tat).

dād f

1. deed

• Low German: Daat

dad m (plural dada)

1. father

Akin to Irish dada, tada.

dad m

1. anything, aught, tittle

   Ciod e th' ort? Chan eil dad.

   What is wrong with you? Nothing.

• dad ort

• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

dad m

1. people

dad

1. Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of dar.

• IPA^(key): /daːd/

dad

1. Soft mutation of tad.

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

dad

1. (anatomy) belly

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind