dad
NounUS[dad]/dæd/1 syllable
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Translations
Noun father (informal)
- Spanish
- papá
- French
- papa
- German
- Vati
- Italian
- papà
- Portuguese
- papai
- Turkish
- baba
- Russian
- па́па pápa
- Arabic
- بَابَا bābā
- Chinese
- 爸爸 bàba
- Japanese
- パパ papa
27 more languages
- Dutch
- papa
- Polish
- tata
- Swedish
- pappa
- Greek
- μπαμπάς bampás
- Korean
- 아빠 appa
- Indonesian
- ayah
- Vietnamese
- tía
- Hungarian
- apu
- Portuguese (PT)
- papai
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 爸爸 bàba
- Albanian
- babi
- Catalan
- papa
- Czech
- tatínek
- Danish
- far
- Esperanto
- paĉjo
- Finnish
- isi
- Georgian
- მამიკო mamiḳo
- Hebrew
- אַבָּא aba
- Icelandic
- pabbi
- Latvian
- tētis
- Norwegian
- pappa
- Romanian
- tată
- Serbo-Croatian
- tata
- Slovenian
- oče
- Swahili
- baba
- Welsh
- tad
- Yiddish
- טאַטע tate
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dad (dăd), noun
Origin: Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. daid, Gael. daidein, W. tad, OL. tata, Gr. τάτα, τέττα, Skr. tāta.
Father; — a word sometimes used by children.
I was never so bethumped with words, Since I first called my brother's father dad.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54