different between dud vs sud

English

Etymology

From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?d, IPA^(key): /d?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

dud (plural duds)

1. (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
2. (informal) A failure of any kind.
   • 2014, A teacher, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian, 23 September 2014:

     At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.

   1. (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
   2. A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
3. (obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

Synonyms

• (losing lottery ticket): blank

Translations

References

See also

• wet firecracker

Anagrams

• DDU, UDD

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (d?d).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?t/

Noun

dud m (collective, singulative dudu or duda, plural dwied, paucal dudiet)

1. worms; worms as a species

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dut/

Noun

dud

1. genitive plural of dudy

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (tut, dut), from Persian ???? (tut).

Noun

dud m (plural duzi)

1. mulberry (tree)

Derived terms

• dud?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (tut, dut), from Persian ???? (tut).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûd/

Noun

d?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. mulberry (fruit)

Declension

Synonyms

• m?rva

Welsh

Noun

dud

1. Soft mutation of tud.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

sud (plural suds)

1. (informal) A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).

Derived terms

• soapsud

Anagrams

• 'uds, DSU, DUs, UDS, USD, us'd

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• Sud

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Compare Romanian sud.

Noun

sud

1. south

See also

• datã/Datã
• vestu/Vestu, ascãpitatã
• nordu/Nordu, njadzã-noapti
• not/Not

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sut/

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

Synonyms

• migdia, migjorn

Antonyms

• nord

See also

(compass points) punt cardinal;

Further reading

• “sud” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sud” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sud” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sud” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Alternative forms

• sudu

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Cognates include Italian sud and Spanish sur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/
• Hyphenation: sud

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

References

• “sud, sudu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech

Noun

sud m

1. barrel
2. keg party

Further reading

• sud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From Middle French sud, from Old French su, sud (“south”), from Old English s?þ (“south”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?. More at south.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syd/

Noun

sud m (plural sud)

1. south

Synonyms

• midi

Antonyms

• nord

Further reading

• “sud” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. south

   Synonyms: meridione, mezzogiorno

   Antonym: nord

Derived terms

• sud-
• sudest, sud-est
• sudista
• sud-sud-est
• sud-sud-ovest
• sudovest, sud-ovest

See also

• est
• ovest
• punto cardinale

Norman

Alternative forms

• su (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French sud, su (“south”), from Old English s?þ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) south

Occitan

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Antonym: nòrd

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 935.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Noun

sud n (uncountable)

1. south

Declension

Synonyms

• miaz?zi (archaic, poetic)

Antonyms

• nord

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. court
2. courthouse
3. tribunal
4. judgment

Declension

Related terms

• sudac

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) vessel
2. (regional) dish

Declension

References

• “sud” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “sud” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/, [?suð?]

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. (Latin America) south

   Synonym: (more common) sur

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ??? (sud).

Noun

sud (plural sudlar)

1. court

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse súð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/, /s????d/, /sœ???r/

  Rhymes: -???ð

  (southern ð-dropping) Rhymes: -???, -???ð

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -???r, -???ð

Noun

sud f

1. (nautical, of a boat) A ship's side; boat edge, top part, edge around a boat, responding to railing on larger craft.

Derived terms

• båtsud
• sudband
• syd