tad

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tad"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Tause with d as a placeholder, influenced by Doa or Darha.

Symbol

tad

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tause.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tause terms

English

Etymology

1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

tad (plural tads)

1. (informal) A small amount; a little bit.

   Synonyms: jot, whit; see also Thesaurus:modicum

   Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?

2. (US, slang, dated) A street boy; an urchin.

   Synonyms: gamin, gurrier, guttersnipe, street child, street urchin

Derived terms

• a tad

Translations

a little bit

• Albanian: çikë (sq)
• Bulgarian: малко количество (malko količestvo)
• Catalan: xic (ca) m, pèl (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一点 (zh) (yídiǎn)

• Danish: anelse c
• Dutch: beetje (nl) n, scheutje (nl) f, (Flemish) klets (nl) m
• Finnish: hiukan (fi), hieman (fi)
• German: Spürchen n
• Hungarian: pöttyet (slang), pindurkát (informal), pilinszkát (informal), hangyányit (informal)
• Italian: po’ m
• Japanese: 多少 (ja) (tashou)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tanke (no) m

• Russian: немно́го (ru) (nemnógo)
• Serbo-Croatian: malko (sh), malenkost (sh) f
• Slovak: trošku, trochu, kúsok
• Spanish: tanto (es) m, chin (es) m, pelín (es) m
• Swedish: gnutta (sv) c
• Telugu: కాస్త (te) (kāsta), కాస్తంత (kāstanta), కొద్దిగా (te) (koddigā)
• Turkish: biraz (tr), birazcık (tr), azıcık (tr)

Anagrams

• .dat, ADT, ATD, D. A. T., D.A.T., DAT, DTA, TDA, dat, dat.

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton tat, from Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːt/

Noun

tad m (plural tadoù)

1. father

   ma zad ― my father

   da dad ― your father

Derived terms

• tad-kaer
• tad-kozh
• tad-kuñv
• tadeg
• tadig

Mutation

Mutation of tad

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	tad	dad	zad	unchanged
plural	tadoù	dadoù	zadoù	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tad

Noun

tad

1. the cigar wrasse (Cheilio inermis)

Latvian

Etymology

Comparable to Lithuanian tada, which is ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adverb

tad

1. then
2. at that time
3. after that
4. afterwards

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English tāda, abbreviation of tādige.

Noun

tad

1. toad

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse tað.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taː/

Noun

tad n (definite singular tadet, uncountable)

1. manure (esp. for fertilizing)

Noun

tad m (definite singular taden, uncountable)

1. (dialectal, Nordnorsk) alternative form of tad m (“manure”)

References

• “tad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “Tad” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• Johan Hveding (1968), Håløygsk ordsamling (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 129

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑀤𑁆 (Brahmi script)
• तद् (Devanagari script)
• তদ্ (Bengali script)
• තද් (Sinhalese script)
• တဒ် or တၻ် (Burmese script)
• ตทฺ or ตัท (Thai script)
• ᨲᨴ᩺ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕທ຺ or ຕັທ (Lao script)
• តទ៑ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄘𑄴 (Chakma script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit तद् (tad).

Adjective

tad

1. (demonstrative) neuter nominative/accusative singular of ta (“that”)

Pronoun

tad

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of ta (“it”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Comparable to Lithuanian tada (“then”), which is ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas (“that”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâd/

Adverb

tȁd (Cyrillic spelling та̏д)

1. then, at that time

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh tad, from Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːd/
• Rhymes: -aːd

Noun

tad m (plural tadau)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• mab (“son”)
• mam (“mother”)
• merch (“daughter”)

Derived terms

• tad bedydd (“godfather”)
• tadenw (“patronymic”, noun)
• tadenwol (“patronymic”, adjective)
• tadol (“paternal”)

Interjection

tad

1. (North Wales) expressing emphasis, originally in reference to God the Father

Mutation

Mutated forms of tad

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tad	dad	nhad	thad

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “tad”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “tad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies