diamonds

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dīʹ(ə)məndz, IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ(ə)məndz/

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Noun

diamonds

1. plural of diamond

Noun

diamonds pl (plural only)

1. (card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.
2. (slang) Testicles.

   Synonym: family jewels

Derived terms

• ace of diamonds
• jack of diamonds
• king of diamonds
• knave of diamonds
• queen of diamonds

 

Related terms

• diamond

Translations

one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦

• Arabic: دِينَارِيّ m (dinari)

  Hijazi Arabic: ديمن m (dēman)

• Bengali: রুইতন (bn) (ruiton)
• Bulgarian: кари pl (kari)
• Burmese: ထောင့် (my) (htaung.), ချွန်း (my) (hkywan:)
• Catalan: diamants (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方塊／方块 (zh) (fāngkuài)

• Czech: káry (cs) f pl
• Danish: ruder c
• Dutch: ruiten (nl) m or f, koeken (nl) m or f (Belgium)
• Esperanto: karoo, rombo
• Estonian: ruutu (et)
• Finnish: ruutu (fi)
• French: carreau (fr) m
• Galician: diamantes m pl
• German: Karo (de) n
• Greek: καρό (el) (karó)
• Hausa: zî m
• Hebrew: יהלום (he) m (yahalom)
• Hindi: ईंट (hi) f (ī̃ṭ)
• Hungarian: káró (hu)
• Ingrian: ruuto
• Interlingua: quadro
• Italian: quadri (it) m pl
• Japanese: ダイヤ (ja) (daiya)
• Khmer: ការូ (kaaruu)
• Latin: quadra n pl
• Latvian: kāravs (lv)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Rauten pl
• Macedonian: баклава f (baklava), каро́ n (karó)
• Malay: ciduk, daiman, retin
• Maltese: dinari
• Mongolian: дөрвөлжин (mn) (dörvölžin)
• Navajo: óola
• Ojibwe: ayashawens, gakak, gaanoo
• Polish: karo (pl) n
• Portuguese: ouros (pt) m pl
• Romanian: romb (ro) n, caro (ro) n
• Russian: бу́бны (ru) f pl (búbny), бу́бна (ru) f (búbna)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: diamantes (es) m pl
• Swahili: uru
• Swedish: ruter (sv) n
• Tagalog: oros
• Turkish: karo (tr)
• Turkmen: kerpiçhal
• Vietnamese: rô (vi)

Verb

diamonds

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of diamond

See also

• ♦, ♢

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “diamond n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• Eric Partridge (2005) “diamonds”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 580.

Anagrams

• Maddison