# blud
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blʌd/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

Created in Multicultural London English, of Jamaican origin. Has since spread around England, and thence Anglosphere and online. Claimed to be, via eye dialect spelling, from Caribbean Creole blood (“family relation, close friend”) (compare blood brother). Possibly derived or reinforced from brother; compare bro, bruh, brudder etc.

#### Noun

blud (plural bluds)
* (UK, MLE, slang, Internet slang) Informal address to a man.
** 2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:–Yeh, blud, safe, goes Ravi.
** 2015, “Shut Up”, performed by Stormzy:Nowadays all of my shows sold out Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out
** 2016, “Punk (Chipmunk Diss)”, performed by Yungen:I heard your mixtape, blud it was garbage […] Blud, I don't know why you mentioned my name

#### Pronoun

blud (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)
* (UK, MLE, slang, often humorous or ironic) he or him
** 2023 February 3, maddy🍋 (@fyridk), Twitter‎:what is blud waffling about
** 2023 February 11, 🔴 (@TenHag_Szn), Twitter‎:who invited blud
** 2023 February 2, Dom2K (@Dom_2k), Twitter‎:Blud was lost
** 2023 February 11, Åmplė  Cålm (@ample_calm), Twitter‎:What is wrong with blud 😂😂🙌🙌
** 2023 February 2, MN1F🇬🇧 (@Wuwakia90), Twitter‎:What’s blud tryna say here

#### See also

* bled

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

blud (usually uncountable, plural bluds)
* Obsolete spelling of blood.
** 1539–1540, Late Banns BL Harl 2150, The Records of Early English Drama, Cheshire Including Chester, Volume 1, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills: University of Toronto Press, 1 January 2007, page 84, line 33–36
    The yronmongers find a Carayge good how Iesu dyed on yͤ Rode and shed for vs his precyus blud the find it in fere

### Anagrams

* ULDB

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech blud, from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈblut]
* Hyphenation: blud
* Rhymes: -ut

### Noun

blud m inan
* delusion
    Synonym: klam

#### Related terms

* bloudit
* bludný

### Further reading

* “blud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “blud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “blud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* blödj (Mooring)
* Blör (Sylt)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą. Compare West Frisian bloed.

### Noun

blud n
* (Föhr-Amrum) blood

## Old Czech
### Alternative forms

* błud (alternative writing)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈbɫud/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈblut/

### Noun

blud m animal
* delusion

#### Related terms

* bludný
* blúditi

#### Descendants

* Czech: blud

### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “blud”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blûːd/

### Noun

blȗd m (Cyrillic spelling блу̑д)
* bawdry, carnality, fornication

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “blud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blǫdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blandás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [blut]

### Noun

blud m inan
* wrong opinion
* mistake, error
* (Christianity) heresy
    Synonym: heréza

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “blud”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Volapük
### Noun

blud (nominative plural bluds)
* blood

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Related terms

* bludön