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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spe?d/
• Homophone: spayed
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spad?, *spadô, *spad? (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph?-d?-, whence also Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “blade”), Hittite [script needed] (išpatar, “spear”), Persian ????? (sop?r, “plow”), Northern Luri ??????? (asp?r, “diging”) and Central Kurdish ??????? (esper), ???????? (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”).

Noun

spade (plural spades)

1. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'

2. A playing card marked with the symbol ?.

3. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
4. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Derived terms

• call a spade a spade
• in spades
• spadefoot
• spadeful
• spadelike
• spade mashie
• spadework
• spadeworker

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: spaid
• ? Fiji Hindi: sipi

Translations

Verb

spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

1. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Derived terms

• spader

References

Etymology 2

Compare spay, noun, and spado.

Alternative forms

• spaid
• spayade

Noun

spade (plural spades)

1. A hart or stag three years old.
2. A castrated man or animal.

Anagrams

• adeps, apsed, paeds, pedas

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spa?d?/

Alternative forms

• spa

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.

Noun

spade m (plural spaden or spades)

1. spade

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch spâde, from Old Dutch *sp?di, from Proto-Germanic *sp?diz (“late”).

Adjective

spade (comparative spader, superlative spaadst)

1. (archaic) late

Inflection

Synonyms

• laat

References

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?de/, [?s?p?de?]
• Rhymes: -?de
• Syllabification: spa?de

Noun

spade

1. (military slang) field cook

   Synonym: sotilaskeittäjä

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “broad blade”).

Noun

spade f (plural spadis)

1. sword

Italian

Noun

spade f

1. plural of spada

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German spade and Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði

Noun

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spader, definite plural spadene)

1. a spade (tool)

   kalle en spade for en spade - call a spade a spade

2. a spadeful

   tre spader jord - three spadefuls of earth

References

• “spade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði, from Middle Low German spade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²sp???/, /²sp??d?/

Noun

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spadar, definite plural spadane)

1. a spade, shovel (tool)

   kalle ein spade for ein spade - call a spade a spade

2. a spadeful

   ein spade sand - a spadeful of sand

Verb

spade (present tense spader, past tense spadde, past participle spadd or spadt, present participle spadande, imperative spad)

1. Alternative form of spa

References

• “spade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spad

Etymology

From Old English spadu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spa?d(?)/

Noun

spade (plural spades)

1. tool for digging, shovel

Descendants

• English: spade
• Scots: spade, spaid
• Yola: spaade

References

• “sp?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse spaði, from Middle Low German spade, from Proto-Germanic *spad?, from Proto-Indo-European *sph?-d?-.

Noun

spade c

1. a spade (tool)

Declension

Related terms

• spada
• spader
• spadformad
• spadhandtag
• spadharv
• spadtag
• spadvända
• spadvändning

References

• spade in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?dz, IPA^(key): /spe?dz/
• Rhymes: -e?dz

Noun

spades

1. plural of spade

Noun

spades

1. One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ?.
2. A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

Derived terms

Related terms

• spade

Translations

See also

Verb

spades

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spade

Anagrams

• passed

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

spades

1. Plural form of spade

Swedish

Noun

spades

1. indefinite genitive singular of spade