Jade

See also: jade, jáde, jäde, and jadę

English

Etymology

From the precious stone jade; taken into general use in the 1970s.

Proper noun

Jade

1. A female given name from English.
   • 2010 Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 102:

     Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —

Translations

female given name

• Afrikaans: Jade (af)
• Cebuano: Jade
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杰德 (jie de), 玉翠 (yu cui)

• Finnish: Jade (fi)
• French: Jade (fr)
• Italian: Giada (it)
• Japanese: ジェイド (Jeido)

Descendants

• Cebuano: Jade
• Mandarin: 杰德 (“jie de”)
• Japanese: ジェイド (“jeido”)

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Jade, from English jade. As a male given name, often, from confusion or misptonunciation of Jed.

Proper noun

Jade

1. a female given name from English
2. a male given name

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jade.

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Finnish

Etymology

From jade (“jade”), in imitation of English usage. First recorded as a Finnish given name in the 1970s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑde/, [ˈjɑde̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑde
• Syllabification: Ja‧de

Proper noun

Jade

1. A female given name.
   • 2016 Niina Hakalahti, Lumilinna, Karisto, →ISBN, pages 84, 122:

     - Kyllä mä tiedän, että Jade ja Jeri on kamalat nimet. Eikä Emma ole yksinhuoltajana aina jaksanut olla ihan niin looginen kuin olisi pitänyt.

     ( - - - )

     -- No just niillä sen ennustuksilla. Mutta mä en nyt halua puhua niistä sen enempää. Jadesta tulee varmaan samanlainen, sillä on jo nyt tapana katsoa toisen läpi, huomasitko silloin Kemissä?

     Sami ei ollut kiinnittanyt huomiota kumpaankaan lapseen erityisesti, muutoin kuin vain huonon käytöksen osalta.

     - Jadehan on hyvä nimi ennustajalle.

Declension

Inflection of Jade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Jade	Jadet
genitive		Jaden	Jadejen
partitive		Jadea	Jadeja
illative		Jadeen	Jadeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Jade	Jadet
accusative	nom.	Jade	Jadet
	gen.	Jaden
genitive		Jaden	Jadejen Jadeinrare
partitive		Jadea	Jadeja
inessive		Jadessa	Jadeissa
elative		Jadesta	Jadeista
illative		Jadeen	Jadeihin
adessive		Jadella	Jadeilla
ablative		Jadelta	Jadeilta
allative		Jadelle	Jadeille
essive		Jadena	Jadeina
translative		Jadeksi	Jadeiksi
instructive		—	Jadein
abessive		Jadetta	Jadeitta
comitative		—	Jadeineen

Possessive forms of Jade (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Jadeni	Jademme
2nd person	Jadesi	Jadenne
3rd person	Jadensa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒad/

Proper noun

Jade ?

1. A female given name from the noun jade, popular in the 2000s.

Anagrams

• déjà

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German

Etymology

From French jade (“jade”), rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (“flank”) (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːdə/
• Rhymes: -aːdə
• Hyphenation: Ja‧de

Noun

Jade m or f (genitive Jades or Jade, plural Jaden)

1. (uncountable) jade (gem)
2. (countable) an artifact made of jade

Declension

Declension of Jade

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Jade	die	Jaden
genitive	eines	des	Jades	der	Jaden
dative	einem	dem	Jade	den	Jaden
accusative	einen	den	Jade	die	Jaden

Declension of Jade

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Jade	die	Jaden
genitive	einer	der	Jade	der	Jaden
dative	einer	der	Jade	den	Jaden
accusative	eine	die	Jade	die	Jaden

Synonyms

• (gem): Jadeit, Nephrit, Chloromelanit
• (jade artifact): Jadeobjekt

Derived terms

• jadegrün
• Jadeit
• Jadekaiser
• jaden
• Jadeobjekt

 

References

• “Jade” in Duden online