oud

See also: oud- and Oud

English

An oud.

Alternative forms

• 'ud

Etymology

From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːd/

Noun

oud (plural ouds)

1. (music) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.

   Coordinate term: sintir

2. (perfume) Agarwood.

Derived terms

• oudist

Translations

Arabic plucked string instrument

• Arabic: عُود (ar) m (ʕūd)

  Egyptian Arabic: عُود (ʿūd)

  Gulf Arabic: عُود (ʿūd)

• Aramaic: ܥܘܕ

  Classical Syriac: ܥܘܕ (ūd)

• Armenian: ուդ (hy) (ud)
• Azerbaijani: ud (az)
• Belarusian: уд m (ud)
• Bulgarian: уд m (ud)
• Catalan: ud m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 烏德琴／乌德琴 (wu¹ dak¹ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 烏德琴／乌德琴 (wūdéqín)

• Czech: úd (cs) m
• Dutch: oed (nl) m
• Esperanto: udo (eo)
• Estonian: uud
• Finnish: ud (fi)
• Galician: ud m
• German: Ud (de) f, Oud f
• Greek: ούτι (el) f (oúti), ούτια f pl (oútia)
• Hebrew: העוד m (ha-ud), עוד (he) m (oud)
• Hindi: औद m (aud)
• Hungarian: úd
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• Japanese: ウード (ūdo)
• Korean: 우드 (udeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: عوود ('ûd)

• Ladino: ut m
• Lithuanian: ūdas m
• Macedonian: уд m (ud)
• Mehri: طرب
• Occitan: ud m
• Persian: عود (fa) ('ud)
• Polish: ud (pl) m
• Portuguese: ud m
• Punjabi: ਊਦ (ūda)
• Russian: уд (ru) m (ud)
• Serbo-Croatian: оуд m, oud m
• Slovak: úd m
• Somali: kaban, cuud
• Spanish: laúd árabe m, ud (es) m
• Swahili: udi
• Thai: อู๊ด (th) (úut)
• Turkish: ud (tr), ut (tr)
• Ukrainian: уд m (ud)
• Uzbek: ud (uz)

Further reading

• oud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 2010. Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn. Pg. 73.

Anagrams

• Duo, duo, duo-, udo

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch oud, from Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”).

Adjective

oud (attributive ou, comparative ouer, superlative oudste)

1. old

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”). Compare German alt, West Frisian âld, Low German old, English old.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

Adjective

oud (comparative ouder, superlative oudst)

1. old

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

Inflection

Declension of oud
uninflected	oud
inflected	oude
comparative	ouder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		oud	ouder	het oudst het oudste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	oude	oudere	oudste
	n. sing.	oud	ouder	oudste
	plural	oude	oudere	oudste
definite		oude	oudere	oudste
partitive		ouds	ouders	—

Next to the regular form oude, the form ouwe is also used informally.

Derived terms

• oudheid

Related terms

• ouwe

Descendants

• Afrikaans: oud

Anagrams

• duo

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Portuguese

Noun

oud m (plural s)

1. Alternative spelling of ud