یاد

See also: یار, بار, پاد, and پار

Khalaj

Noun

یاد (yâd) (definite accusative یادؽ, plural یادلار)

1. Arabic spelling of yâd (“memory”)

Declension

Declension of یاد

	singular	plural
nominative	یاد	یادلار
genitive	یادؽݧ	یادلارؽݧ
dative	یادقا	یادلارقا
definite accusative	یادؽ	یادلارؽ
locative	یادچا	یادلارچا
ablative	یاددا	یادلاردا
instrumental	یادلا	یادلارلا
equative	یادوارا	یادلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Common Turkic *yāt (“alien, foreign, unfamiliar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jad/

Adjective

یاد • (yad)

1. foreign, unfamiliar

Descendants

• Turkish: yad

Etymology 2

From Persian یاد (yâd, “memory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaːd/

Noun

یاد • (yâd)

1. remembrance

Descendants

• Turkish: yâd

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠ayād⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Habí- + *yáH- (probably from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go; to go in, to enter”), with Iranian semantic shift "to enter [the mind]" > "to remember"). Compare Tocharian A [Term?] (opyāc, “in remembrance”), probably borrowed from an Eastern Iranian language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jaːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔːd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	yāḏ
Dari reading?	yād
Iranian reading?	yâd
Tajik reading?	yod

Noun

Dari	یاد
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ёд

یاد • (yâd)

1. memory

   Synonyms: حافظه (hâfeze), خاطر (xâter)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 11”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     گو نام ما ز یاد به عمداً چه می‌بری
     خود آید آن که یاد نیاری ز نام ما

     gū nām-i mā zi yād ba amdan či mē-barī
     xwad āyad ān ki yād nay-ārī zi nām-i mā

     Say, why do you purposely forget my name?
     The [time] shall come by itself that you do not remember my name.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Related terms

verbal phrases

• از یاد بردن (az yâd bordan, “to forget; to cause to forget”, literally “to take away from memory”)
• از یاد رفتن (az yâd raftan, “to be forgotten”, literally “to go from memory”)
• به یاد آوردن (be yâd âvordan, “to recall; to remind”, literally “to bring to memory”)
• به یاد افتادن (be yâd oftâdan, “to remember”, literally “to fall to memory”)
• به یاد انداختن (be yâd andâxtan, “to remind”, literally “to throw to memory”)
• به یاد داشتن (be yâd dâštan, “to remember”, literally “to have in memory”)
• به یاد سپردن (be yâd sepordan, “to memorize”, literally “to entrust to memory”)
• به یاد ماندن (be yâd mândan, “to be remembered; to have in memory”, literally “to stay in memory”)
• یاد دادن (yâd dâdan, “to teach”, literally “to give memory”)
• یاد داشتن (yâd dâštan, “to remember; (Afghanistan) to know how to”, literally “to have in memory”)
• یاد رفتن (yâd raftan, “to be forgotten”, literally “to go from memory”)
• یاد کردن (yâd kardan, “to mention; to reminesce”, literally “to make memory”)
• یاد گرفتن (yâd gereftan, “to learn”, literally “to take memory”)

others

• یادداشت (yâd-dâšt, “memo”)
• یادش بخیر (yâd-eš bexeyr)
• یادگار (yâdgâr, “keepsake; remembrance”)
• یادگیری (yâd-giri, “learning”)

Descendants

• → Assamese: ইয়াদ (iad)
• → Azerbaijani: yad
• → Baluchi: یات (yát)
• → Bengali: ইয়াদ (iẏad)
• → Chagatai: یاد (yād)

  Uyghur: ياد (yad)

  Uzbek: yod

• → Gujarati: યાદી (yādī), યાદ (yād)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: याद (yād)

  Urdu: یاد (yād)

• → Kannada: ಯಾದಿ (yādi)
• → Kazakh: жад (jad)
• → Khalaj: yâd
• → Maithili: iād, iādi

  Devanagari script: इआद, इआदि

  Tirhuta script: 𑒃𑒂𑒠, 𑒃𑒂𑒠𑒱

• → Marathi: यादी (yādī)
• → Marwari: याद (yād)
• → Old Punjabi: ਯਾਦਿ (yādi)
  • Punjabi: yād

    Gurmukhi script: ਯਾਦ

    Shahmukhi script: یاد

• → Ottoman Turkish: یاد (yâd)
  • Turkish: yâd
• → Pashto: ياد (yād)
• → Sindhi: yādi

  Arabic script: يادِ

  Devanagari script: यादि

Further reading

• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “یاد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1499a–1500b
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ayād”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 15
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*HiaH”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 175

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَاد (yād).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /jäːd̪ᵊ/

Noun

یَاد • (yād) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਯਾਦ)

1. memory (ie. recall, recollection of a past event)

   Synonym: چیتا (cetā)

2. memory, honour
3. (by extension) nostalgia

Declension

Declension of یاد

	singular	plural
direct	یَاد (yād)	یَاداں (yādāṉ)
oblique	یَاد (yād)	یَاداں (yādāṉ)
vocative	یَادے (yāde)	یَادو (yādo)
ablative	یَادوں (yādoṉ)	یَاداں (yādāṉ)
locative	یَادی (yādī)	یَادِیں (yādīṉ)
instrumental	یَادِیں (yādīṉ)	یَادے (yāde)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “یاد”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “یاد”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਯਾਦ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian یاد (yād).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jɑːd̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːd̪

Noun

یاد • (yād) f (Hindi spelling याद)

1. memory
2. recollection
3. reminiscence

Declension

Declension of یاد

	singular	plural
direct	یاد (yād)	یادیں (yādẽ)
oblique	یاد (yād)	یادوں (yādõ)
vocative	یاد (yād)	یادو (yādo)

Derived terms

• یاد کَرْنا (yād karnā, “to recall”)
• یاد آنا (yād ānā, “to remember”)
• یاد دِلانا (yād dilānā, “to remind”)
• یاد رَکْھنا (yād rakhnā, “to bear in mind”)

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu یاد (yād).

Noun

یاد (yād)

1. remembrance, remember