shad

See also: Shad

English

an American shad (Alosa sapidissima)

Etymology

From Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

shad (plural shad or shads)

1. Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
   • 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1

     Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.

2. (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Derived terms

terms derived from shad

• Agrakhan shad (Alosa sphaerocephala)
• Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae)
• allis shad (Alosa alosa)
• American shad (Alosa sapidissima)
• Astrabad shad (Alosa caspia persica)
• Azov shad (Alosa tanaica)
• Black Sea shad (Alosa maeotica)
• Caspian anadromous shad (Alosa kessleri)
• Caspian marine shad (Alosa braschnikowi)
• Caspian shad (Alosa caspia caspia)
• Enzeli shad (Alosa caspia knipowitschi)
• European shad (Alosa fallax)
• gizzard shad (Dorosoma spp. et al.)
• hickory shad (Alosa mediocris)
• Killarney shad (Alosa killarnensis)
• Kura shad (Alosa curensis)
• Laotian shad (Tenualosa thibaudeaui)
• Macedonia shad (Alosa macedonica)
• North African shad (Alosa algeriensis)
• Pontic shad (Alosa immaculata)
• Reeves' shad (Tenualosa reevesii)
• river shad (Alosa spp.)
• Saposhnikovi shad (Alosa saposchnikowii)
• shadbird
• shadbush, shad bush (Amelanchier spp.)
• shad frog (Rana halecina)
• shad-spirit
• shad-waiter (Prosopium cylindraceum)
• skipjack shad (Alosa chrysochloris)
• Toli shad (Tenualosa toli)
• Thracian shad (Alosa vistonica)
• twait shad, twaite shad (Alosa fallax)
• Volga shad (Alosa volgensis)

Translations

fishes of the herring family

• Bulgarian: карагьоз (bg) m (karagjoz)
• Catalan: alosa (ca) f
• Dutch: elft (nl) m
• Finnish: täpläsilli (fi), silli (fi)
• French: alose (fr)
• Galician: sable (gl) m
• German: Maifisch (de) m
• Hungarian: amerikai alóza, amerikai vándorhering, fint
• Irish: sead f2
• Italian: agone (it) m, alosa (it) f
• Lithuanian: alsė
• Luxembourgish: Els f, Meefësch m
• Mi'kmaq: msamu anim, samu anim
• Old English: sceadd
• Polish: aloza (pl)
• Portuguese: sável (pt) m
• Russian: шэд (ru) m (šɛd)
• Spanish: alosa f, sábalo (es) m
• Swedish: majfisk c
• Vietnamese: cá trích đầy mình
• Welsh: gwangen f, gwengyn m

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “sgadan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

Anagrams

• ADHs, Dash, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, dash

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Etymology

From Middle English shoed, past participle of shon.

Adjective

shad

1. shod

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 66