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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/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

tad (plural tads)

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

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

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:modicum.

Translations

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): /?t??t/

Noun

tad m (plural tadoù)

1. father

Inflection

Derived terms

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

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (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

t?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. then, at that time

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?d/

Noun

tad m (plural tadau)

1. father

Coordinate terms

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

Mutation

English

Noun

tav (plural tavs)

1. Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VAT, VTA, vat, vta

Danish

Alternative forms

• tiede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tav?], [?t??w?]

Verb

tav

1. past tense of tie

Finnish

Noun

tav

1. taw (twenty-second letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -vat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *t?pás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (tapas, “heat, fire”), Persian ?????? (?ft?b, “sun”), Persian ???? (tâb, “heat, warmth”), Latin tepidus (“warm”), Russian ?????? (tjóplyj, “warm”), Old Armenian ??? (tap, “heat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??v/

Noun

tav f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. sun, sunlight

   Synonym: roj

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press