tad

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tad"

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

• Bulgarian: малко количество (malko količestvo)
• Catalan: xic (ca) m, pèl (ca) m
• 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)
• 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
• Swedish: gnutta (sv) c
• Telugu: కాస్త (te) (kāsta), కాస్తంత (kāstanta), కొద్దిగా (te) (koddigā)
• Turkish: biraz (tr), azıcık (tr), azıcık (tr)
• Turkish: birazcık (tr)

Anagrams

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

Breton

Etymology

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

Inflection

Mutation of tad

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

Derived terms

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

 

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tad

Noun

tad

1. the cigar wrasse (Cheilio inermis)

Latvian

Adverb

tad

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

Middle English

Noun

tad

1. toad

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâd/

Adverb

tȁd (Cyrillic spelling та̏д)

1. then, at that time

Welsh

Etymology

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”)

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.