Meaning of the word dad

Last Updated:
4 Apr 2023
— Updated example sentences

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /dæd/
• Rhymes: -æd
• Homophone: Dad

Etymology 1[edit]

From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin.

• Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, after triggering a soft mutation, ‘Tâd’ turns into ‘Dâd’.
• Perhaps imitative of a child’s first uttered syllables da, da.^[1]
• Possibly from a metathetic variation of unrecorded Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô («father, forefather»; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”), Norwegian taate (“dad”), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).

Alternative forms[edit]

• dadde (obsolete)
• dadda

Noun[edit]

dad (plural dads)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father

   His dad was always there for him.

2. Used to address one’s father

   Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, Pa, papa, pop, Pop, papá, papà, pappa, pater, paw

   Happy Father’s Day, Dad!

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

   Synonyms: daddio, pop, pops

Derived terms[edit]

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Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• mum, mom
• sire

References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

dad (plural dads)

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

Verb[edit]

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

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

Anagrams[edit]

• AD&D, ADD, add, add.

Angloromani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Romani dad.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈdæd], [dæd]

Noun[edit]

dad

1. father

   Synonyms: daddarus, daddi, daddus

   Kai si chor dad?

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Kon si chor dad?

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References[edit]

• “dad”, in Angloromani Dictionary, The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 52

Azerbaijani[edit]

Other scripts

Cyrillic	дад
Perso-Arabic	داد‎

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [dɑd]

Noun[edit]

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

1. taste

   Synonym: tam

Declension[edit]

Declension of dad
	singular	plural
nominative	dad	dadlar
definite accusative	dadı	dadları
dative	dada	dadlara
locative	dadda	dadlarda
ablative	daddan	dadlardan
definite genitive	dadın	dadların

Possessive forms of dad
	nominative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadım	dadlarım
sənin (“your”)	dadın	dadların
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadı	dadları
bizim (“our”)	dadımız	dadlarımız
sizin (“your”)	dadınız	dadlarınız
onların (“their”)	dadı or dadları	dadları
	accusative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımı	dadlarımı
sənin (“your”)	dadını	dadlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadını	dadlarını
bizim (“our”)	dadımızı	dadlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	dadınızı	dadlarınızı
onların (“their”)	dadını or dadlarını	dadlarını
	dative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadıma	dadlarıma
sənin (“your”)	dadına	dadlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadına	dadlarına
bizim (“our”)	dadımıza	dadlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	dadınıza	dadlarınıza
onların (“their”)	dadına or dadlarına	dadlarına
	locative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımda	dadlarımda
sənin (“your”)	dadında	dadlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadında	dadlarında
bizim (“our”)	dadımızda	dadlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	dadınızda	dadlarınızda
onların (“their”)	dadında or dadlarında	dadlarında
	ablative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımdan	dadlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	dadından	dadlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadından	dadlarından
bizim (“our”)	dadımızdan	dadlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	dadınızdan	dadlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	dadından or dadlarından	dadlarından
	genitive
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımın	dadlarımın
sənin (“your”)	dadının	dadlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadının	dadlarının
bizim (“our”)	dadımızın	dadlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	dadınızın	dadlarınızın
onların (“their”)	dadının or dadlarının	dadlarının

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• → Lezgi: дад (dad)

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Persian داد‎.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [dɑːd]

Noun[edit]

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

Declension[edit]

Declension of dad
	singular	plural
nominative	dad	dadlar
definite accusative	dadı	dadları
dative	dada	dadlara
locative	dadda	dadlarda
ablative	daddan	dadlardan
definite genitive	dadın	dadların

Possessive forms of dad
	nominative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadım	dadlarım
sənin (“your”)	dadın	dadların
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadı	dadları
bizim (“our”)	dadımız	dadlarımız
sizin (“your”)	dadınız	dadlarınız
onların (“their”)	dadı or dadları	dadları
	accusative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımı	dadlarımı
sənin (“your”)	dadını	dadlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadını	dadlarını
bizim (“our”)	dadımızı	dadlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	dadınızı	dadlarınızı
onların (“their”)	dadını or dadlarını	dadlarını
	dative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadıma	dadlarıma
sənin (“your”)	dadına	dadlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadına	dadlarına
bizim (“our”)	dadımıza	dadlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	dadınıza	dadlarınıza
onların (“their”)	dadına or dadlarına	dadlarına
	locative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımda	dadlarımda
sənin (“your”)	dadında	dadlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadında	dadlarında
bizim (“our”)	dadımızda	dadlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	dadınızda	dadlarınızda
onların (“their”)	dadında or dadlarında	dadlarında
	ablative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımdan	dadlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	dadından	dadlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadından	dadlarından
bizim (“our”)	dadımızdan	dadlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	dadınızdan	dadlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	dadından or dadlarından	dadlarından
	genitive
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımın	dadlarımın
sənin (“your”)	dadının	dadlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadının	dadlarının
bizim (“our”)	dadımızın	dadlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	dadınızın	dadlarınızın
onların (“their”)	dadının or dadlarının	dadlarının

Interjection[edit]

dad

1. alas! woe!

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

dad (definite accusative dadı, plural dadlar)

1. help, aid, assistance

Declension[edit]

Declension of dad
	singular	plural
nominative	dad	dadlar
definite accusative	dadı	dadları
dative	dada	dadlara
locative	dadda	dadlarda
ablative	daddan	dadlardan
definite genitive	dadın	dadların

Possessive forms of dad
	nominative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadım	dadlarım
sənin (“your”)	dadın	dadların
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadı	dadları
bizim (“our”)	dadımız	dadlarımız
sizin (“your”)	dadınız	dadlarınız
onların (“their”)	dadı or dadları	dadları
	accusative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımı	dadlarımı
sənin (“your”)	dadını	dadlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadını	dadlarını
bizim (“our”)	dadımızı	dadlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	dadınızı	dadlarınızı
onların (“their”)	dadını or dadlarını	dadlarını
	dative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadıma	dadlarıma
sənin (“your”)	dadına	dadlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadına	dadlarına
bizim (“our”)	dadımıza	dadlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	dadınıza	dadlarınıza
onların (“their”)	dadına or dadlarına	dadlarına
	locative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımda	dadlarımda
sənin (“your”)	dadında	dadlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadında	dadlarında
bizim (“our”)	dadımızda	dadlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	dadınızda	dadlarınızda
onların (“their”)	dadında or dadlarında	dadlarında
	ablative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımdan	dadlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	dadından	dadlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadından	dadlarından
bizim (“our”)	dadımızdan	dadlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	dadınızdan	dadlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	dadından or dadlarından	dadlarından
	genitive
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dadımın	dadlarımın
sənin (“your”)	dadının	dadlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	dadının	dadlarının
bizim (“our”)	dadımızın	dadlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	dadınızın	dadlarınızın
onların (“their”)	dadının or dadlarının	dadlarının

References[edit]

• 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

Balkan Romani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• dat (Sepečides, Sofia Erli)

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad.

Noun[edit]

dad m

1. (Bugurdži, Crimea, Kosovo Arli, Macedonian Arli, Sofia Erli, Ursari) father

   Synonyms: (Bugurdži) babi, (Sofia Erli) baba

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Bugurdži Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Crimean Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Kosovo Arli Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Macedonian Arli Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Sofia Erli Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Ursari Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Baltic Romani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• daad (Latvia)

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad.

Noun[edit]

dad m

1. (Lithuania, North Russia) father

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Lithuanian Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in North Russian Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Breton[edit]

Noun[edit]

dad

1. Mutated form of tad.

Carpathian Romani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad.

Noun[edit]

dad m

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

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Burgenland Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in East Slovak Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Gurvari Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Hungarian Vend Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Prekmurski Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Romungro Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Veršend Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Persian داد‎ (dâd).

Noun[edit]

dad f

1. justice

Old Saxon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

dād f

1. deed

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Low German: Daat

Romagnol[edit]

Noun[edit]

dad m (plural dëd)

1. Clipping of dàdo (“a dear”).

Romani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• dade (Dolenjski)

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

1. father

   Synonym: (Dolenjski) tata

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Alinčová, Milena (September 2002), “Daj / Dad (Mother / Father)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎^[1], Prague, retrieved August 25, 2021
• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o dad, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház—Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 119ab
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “dad”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 22, 135

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Akin to Irish dada, tada.

Noun[edit]

dad m

1. anything, aught, tittle

   Ciod e th’ ort? Chan eil dad.

   What is wrong with you? Nothing.

[edit]

References[edit]

• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh, 1925, →OCLC

Sinte Romani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• dat

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad.

Noun[edit]

dad m

1. father

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Franz Nikolaus Finck, Lehrbuch des Dialekts der deutschen Zigeuner, Marburg, N. G. Elwert, 1903, →OCLC, page 74.
• “dad” in Sinte Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Somali[edit]

Noun[edit]

dad m

1. people

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdad/ [ˈd̪að̞]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: dad

Verb[edit]

dad

1. second-person plural imperative of dar

Traveller Norwegian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad.

Noun[edit]

dad

1. father

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Norwegian Romani Dictionary.
• “dad” in Tavringens Rakripa: Romanifolkets Ordbok, Landsorganisasjonen for Romanifolket.

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic ضَاد‎ (ḍād).

Noun[edit]

dad

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ض

Alternative forms[edit]

• dat

Vlax Romani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad.

Noun[edit]

dad m

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

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Banatiski Gurbet Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Gurbet Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Kalderaš Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Lovara Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Macedonian Džambazi Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “dad” in Sremski Gurbet Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /daːd/

Noun[edit]

dad

1. Soft mutation of tad.

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tad	dad	nhad	thad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh Romani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Romani dad (“father”).

Noun[edit]

dad m

1. father
2. Roman Catholic priest

   Synonym: ‘måro rašaj

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “dad” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

Zay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

dad

1. (anatomy) abdomen

References[edit]

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

папа, папочка

существительное ↓

глагол

- проветривать выработку

Словосочетания

deadbeat dad / mom — неплательщик / неплательщица алиментов  
dad-blasted — проклятый  
dad-blamed — проклятый  
grand-dad — дедушка  
ho dad — скучный тип; хвастун; зануда  
ho-dad — скучный тип; хвастун; зануда  
mom and dad — родители; предки  
dad-fuel interface — поверхность раздела между оболочкой тепловыделяющего элемента и ядерным топливом  
deadbeat dad — неплательщик алиментов; алиментщик  

Примеры с переводом

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): dad
мн. ч.(plural): dads

Of all the words we use our fathers—from pappy to old man—the most common American appellation is three little letters: dad. And with Father’s Day arriving this weekend, you may be wondering where that familiar word comes from.

The leading hypothesis is: babies.

“There’s unusual similarity in the words for mothers and fathers throughout the world,” says the Oxford English Dictionary’s Katherine Martin. “And that has to do with how babies start to vocalize.” Dad most probably comes from dada, which has a construction one can see reflected in other pater words like papa, tata, abba and baba.

To understand this, it is best that we do some things that might weird out the people around you. First, open your mouth and just push some air out. That noise, much like the one you make in the dentist’s chair, should sound a lot like the vowel sound one hears in mama, papa and those other words. Because it takes little thought or skill to make, that tends to be one of the first that babies babble. “Other vowels,” says linguist Gretchen McCulloch, “require more precise control.”

Now, make the “duh” sound. Feel how your tongue is on the roof of your mouth near the back of your teeth? Make the “puh” and “buh” sounds. Feel how that’s all in the lips? Do it one more time and notice how those sounds come from the front of your mouth rather than the back, compared to sounds like g’s “guh” or k’s “kuh.”

While babies have a hard time with those more complicated, back-of-the-mouth sounds—which is why it seems natural and adorable when Tweety Bird sees a “puddy tat” instead of a “kitty cat”—those front-of-the-mouth consonants are much easier for little baby faces to utter. Infants can see what adults do with their lips and imitate those lippy sounds, while, “if you’re doing stuff with your tongue, the easiest thing to do is just throw it up in the front,” McCulloch says.

Young humans also learn words better (even nonsensical ones) when there’s a repeated sound (though we don’t know exactly why). All of which means that “dada” is a natural sound for babies to make. And, as another part of the theory goes, parents want to assume their babies know them by name even if their children are just babbling away. So those sounds have been assumed to be names for caregivers—and then reinforced as names for caregivers over generations.

So why do we think of females as “mama” and males as “dada” or “papa”? The easiest consonant sound to make, says Oxford’s Martin, is the “mmmmm” sound, one that is similar to the noise babies make when they’re nursing. And because women have tended to be the primary caregivers throughout history, that early sound has become associated with them, says McCulloch. Meanwhile, the babbles that tend to be gurgled up soon after that are associated with the person babies have come into contact with the second most: dads.

There are endless spins on these dad words. Papa, for instance, becomes not just pappy but pa, pop, pops, poppa, pa-paw and pop-pop. Part of the reason for this is that people are downright playful with English. Part may be differences in accents and speech patterns from place to place. And another part is likely that, unlike most kinship terms (think: niece, cousin, brother), these words tend to stand in as quasi-names for the people they refer to, says Martin. “They can be really particular to a family or a region,” she says. “Dad and mom are the dominant ones, but families have their own individual practices too.”

Yet the overriding theme here is not difference but sameness. All the global variations on this theme—from tata in Poland to baba in South Asia—are evidence that despite different cultures, people share experiences of kinship, and that babies from every corner of the world at least start out having some things in common. The words that different languages use for father, like Spanish padre and German Vater, have been used to show the genetic relationship between languages themselves, too.

That widespread understanding of what it’s like to have a parent is part of the reason the word dad pops up so often in slang. Parent words are “really ripe for metaphors,” says McCulloch. “They have this relationship that everybody kind of understands.” At its best, that dad relationship boils down father-figures being the greatest in slang—or at least solid.

The most exemplary or outstanding example of something has been “the granddaddy of them all” for centuries. In the mid-1900s, jazz musicians began calling each other “daddy-o” to signal they were equals or friendly. And it’s become fashionable on social media to refer to public figures one admires as “mom” or “dad,” be that man Kanye West or Bernie Sanders. This “dad,” as linguist Ben Zimmer puts it, is usually “a man you’re not actually thinking of as being your father or being like your father but having qualities you respect.”

So whether your dad inspires you or embarrasses you, whether you are a mac daddy or a baby-daddy, whether you are a swingin’ daddy-o or the resigned owner of a dad bod, remember that you are in abundant company this Father’s Day.

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DAD

Childish word; compare Greek tata, Sanskrit tatas.

PRONUNCIATION OF DAD

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DAD

Dad is a noun.

WHAT DOES DAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

SYNONYMS OF «DAD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dad» and belong to the same grammatical category.

TRANSLATION OF DAD

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DAD»

The term «dad» is very widely used and occupies the 3.334 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

Principal search tendencies and common uses of dad

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DAD» OVER TIME

10 QUOTES WITH «DAD»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAD»

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REFERENCE

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Dad is an informal word for father. It’s a word like pop or daddy. Some families have two dads, others have none. Sometimes a dad gets a World’s Greatest Dad mug on Father’s Day.

Is Dad a British word?

Is daddy a childish word?

(usually childish) Father. (dated slang) An informal term of address for a man. Rock ‘n’ roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!

When was Dad first used?

Dad was first recorded in the 1500s, along with the more colloquial daddy. Pop arose in America in the 1830s. The terms themselves were certainly in spoken use earlier.

How do you say dad in slang?

Category:

1. father (related) A person regarded as a male parent; protector. …
2. daddy. Granddaddy. …
3. papa. Father. …
4. old man. (Slang) One’s father. …
5. pop. Pop music. …
6. pappy. (Informal) one’s grandfather. …
7. dada. (Childish) Father, dad. …
8. pappa. an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk.

How do you say dad in Japanese?

The general word for father in Japanese is (otousan). However, there is more than one way to say father in Japanese. … 10 Ways to Say Father in Japanese

1. Chichi- My Father. …
2. Otousan- Dad, Father. …
3. Chichi-Oya- A Father. …
4. Oyaji- Old Man, Pops. …
5. Papa- Papa, Daddy. …
6. Oton- Paw, Pa.

How do you say dad in Scottish?

Words for family members and other relatives in Scottish Gaelic, a Goidelic Celtic language spoken mainly in Scotland. … Family words in Scottish Gaelic (Gidhlig)

Scottish Gaelic (Gidhlig)
father	athair / dadaidh
mother	mthair / mamaidh
children	clann / pisdean
son	mac

What is the real meaning of daddy?

Slang. an affectionate or familiar term of address to a boyfriend or male romantic partner, especially if he is older.

What is the true meaning of a father?

Full Definition of father (Entry 1 of 2) 1a(1) : a male parent. (2) : a man who has begotten a child also : a male animal who has sired an offspring.

What does daddy mean in Korean?

volume_up. {noun} daddy (also: dad, pa)

Why does dad mean father?

What we do know is that the most agreed upon way to refer to dad these days is by calling him, well, ‘dad. ‘ … ‘Father’ comes from the Proto-Indo-European pter and Old English ‘fder,’ meaning he who begets a child, reflecting the baby-talk sound pa as well as a phonetic shift from ‘p’ to ‘f’ in Middle English.

Is there a difference between father and dad?

What is the difference between a father and a dad? The difference between a dad and a father is that the dad is focused on loving their child, while the father focuses his attention and efforts elsewhere.

What is the origin of dad?

dad (n.) a father, papa, recorded from c. 1500, but probably much older, from child’s speech, nearly universal and probably prehistoric (compare Welsh tad, Irish daid, Lithuanian tt, Sanskrit tatah, Czech tata, Latin tata father, Greek tata, used by youths to their elders).

What’s a better word for dad?

What is another word for dad?

father	daddy
pop	pa
papa	pater
poppa	sire
patriarch	stepfather

What do you call daddy?

In addition to all the private and unique names we might have for our fathers, generically there are so many names we could choose from: pa, pops, pop, dad, daddy, papa, father and so on.

What word means dad?

Synonyms of dad

• daddy,
• father,
• old man,
• pa,
• papa.
• (also poppa),
• pater.
• [chiefly British],

How do you say dad in Italian?

The most common translation into Italian is pap. It is pronounced [pa’pa].

What is a French father called?

French Translation. pre. More French words for father. le pre noun. dad, parent, papa.

How do you say dad in anime?

Father. The father of the family is usually addressed with otou-san, (), and with chichi () when referring to one’s own father to somebody outside the family.

How do the Irish say dad?

Again, most Irish children use English words for their fathers. These include Dad, Daddy, and Da. The Irish Gaelic word for father is Athair (AH her). Most Irish speaking children would call their fathers Dada (DAH dee), however.

How do you say daughter in Irish?

What is Teaghlach?

teaghlach m (genitive singular teaghlaigh, nominative plural teaghlaigh) immediate family. household.