different between shad vs saad

English

Etymology

Old English sceadd, either from Celtic (see Irish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian (see dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd/
• 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

Translations

Anagrams

• ADHs, Dash, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, dash

Yola

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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

saad (plural saads)

1. The letter ? in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• AADs, ADAs, ADS-A, Asad, DaaS, Sada, aads

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zaad.

Noun

saad (plural sade, diminutive saadjie)

1. seed

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa?ad

Noun

saad

1. a promise; an oath or affirmation; a vow
2. a solemn promise to do something

Verb

saad

1. to promise; to vow
2. to pledge; to make a solemn promise (to do something)

Estonian

Verb

saad

1. second-person singular present indicative of saama

Navajo

Noun

saad (possessed form bizaad)

1. word

2. language

3. speech

Inflection

Derived terms

• saadtah (argument)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

saad n (definite singular saadet, indefinite plural saad, definite plural saadi)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by såd

Noun

saad f (definite singular saadi, indefinite plural saader or saadir, definite plural saaderne or saadine)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by så

Tagalog

Adjective

saád

1. said; stated; related

Derived terms