# ولد
## Algerian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɪld/

### Noun

ولد (weld) m (plural ولاد (wulād))
* son
* boy
* child

## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

From Proto-Semitic *walad-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.la.da/

#### Verb

وَلَدَ • (walada) I (non-past يَلِدُ (yalidu), verbal noun وِلَادَة (wilāda) or لِدَة (lida) or مَوْلِد (mawlid))
* to bear, to beget
    وُلِدْتُ فِي مَدِينَةٍ كَبِيرَةٍ.wulidtu fī madīnatin kabīratin.I was born in a big city.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 112:3:لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْlam yalid wa-lam yūladHe neither begets nor is born,
* to produce, to bring forth

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.2

Form-II intensive/causative of وَلَدَ (walada, “to give birth”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wal.la.da/

#### Verb

وَلَّدَ • (wallada) II (non-past يُوَلِّدُ (yuwallidu), verbal noun تَوْلِيد (tawlīd))
* to assist in childbirth (as a midwife)
* to make children to, to cause to give birth
* to rear, to educate, to bring up
* to innovate, to originate, to generate, to produce
    وَجَمَالُ ٱلْأَشْخَاصِ هُوَ أَمْرٌ يُؤَثِّرُ بِٱلْمَشَاعِرِ وَيُوَلِّدُ ٱلْإنْجِذَابَ نَحْوَ الْآخَرِينَ.wa-jamālu l-ʔašḵāṣi huwa ʔamrun yuʔaṯṯiru bi-l-mašāʕiri wa-yuwallidu l-ʔinjiḏāba naḥwa l-ʔāḵarīna.The beauty of people is something that affects feelings and generates attraction towards others.
* to give birth
* to derive (a word)

##### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “ولد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ولد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

### Etymology 1.3

Compare Hebrew יֶלֶד (yéled), Ge'ez ወልድ (wäld).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.lad/

#### Noun

وَلَد • (walad) m (plural أَوْلَاد (ʔawlād) or وُلْد (wuld) or وِلْدَان (wildān) or وِلْدَة (wilda))
* child (“son or daughter of any age”)
    أُرِيد أَنْ أَلْعَب مَع أَوْلادُك.ʔurīd ʔan ʔalʕab maʕ ʔawlāduk.I want to play with your children.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:31:وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًاwalā taqtulū ʔawlādakum ḵašyata ʔimlāqin naḥnu narzuquhum wa-ʔiyyākum ʔinna qatlahum kāna ḵiṭʔan kabīranAnd do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is ever a great sin.
* (collective) offspring, issue
* (colloquial) boy
* (colloquial) son

##### Descendants

* Maltese: wild
* → Azerbaijani: vələd
* → Bengali: ওলদ (ōlod)
* → Ottoman Turkish: ولد (veled) (see there for further descendants)
* → Uzbek: valad
(via plural form أَوْلَاد (ʔawlād))
* → Azerbaijani: övlad
* → Bengali: আওলাদ (aōlad)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: औलाद (aulād)
    Urdu: اَولَاد (aulād)
* → Kazakh: әулет (äulet)
* → Ottoman Turkish: اولاد
** Turkish: evlat
** → Albanian: evlat
** → Ladino: evlad (Monastir)
** → Serbo-Croatian: èvlād / ѐвла̄д
* → Persian: اولاد (owlâd)
* → Punjabi:
** Gurmukhi script: ਔਲਾਦ (aulād)
** Shahmukhi script: اولاد (aulād)
* → Turkmen: öwlat
* → Uyghur: ئەۋلاد (ewlad)
* → Uzbek: avlod

### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “ولد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Chadian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَلِدَ (walida).

### Verb

ولد • (wilid) (non-past يلد (yalda))
* to give birth

### References

* Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎ (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 153

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.lad/

#### Noun

ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (wilād))
* boy
    Alternative forms: واد (wād), ولا (wala)

##### Coordinate terms

* بنت (bint, “girl”)
* راجل (rāgil, “man”)
* ستّ (sitt, “woman”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic وَلَدَ (walada).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.lad/, /wi.lid/

#### Verb

ولد • (walad, wilid) (verbal noun ولادة (wilāda), active participle والد (wālid), passive participle مولود (mawlūd))
* to give birth, to bear

##### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.
$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

## Hassaniya Arabic
### Etymology

Standard Arabic وَلَد (walad, “son of”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [wulː]

### Prefix

ولد (wull)
* son (of)

### References

* ↑ apptek.com "Solving the Problem of Traditional Approaches to Name Matching" 'The North African Arabic prefix Ow, a variant of Ould (which comes from Arabic وَلَد (walad, “son of”))'

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wuld/, /wald/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ولد • (wuld, wald) m (plural ولاد (wlād))
* boy
    Synonyms: طفل (tafl), عايل (ʕāyil)
* son
    Synonym: بن (ben)
* (in the plural) children

## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

### Noun

ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (ulād) or صِبيان (ṣibyān) or صُبيان (ṣubyān))
* boy

#### Usage notes

* The plural ولاد (ulād) can mean “boys” specifically, but also “children” in general. The alternative plural is used to explicitly specify the masculine.

#### See also

* ابن (ibin)
* بنت (bint)
* شب (šabb)
* صبيه (ṣabīye)
* طفل (ṭifil, ṭufil)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* վէլէտ (veled) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَلَد (walad). The adjective is from a clipping of ولد زنا (veledi zina, “bastard”).

### Noun

ولد • (veled) (broken plural اولاد or ولده)
* child
    Synonym: اوغل (oğul)
* child (of animals), cub, pup
* children, offspring, progeny
    Synonym: اولاد (evlâd)

#### Derived terms

* ولد زنا (veledi zina)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: velet

### Adjective

ولد • (veled)
* mischievous, crafty
* impudent, audacious

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: velet
* → Armenian: վէլէտ (vēlēt)

### References

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ولد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2148f.
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ولد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1315b

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic وَلِدَ (walida).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi.lid/, [ˈwi.lɪd]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

ولد • (wilid) I (present بولد (būlad))
* to give birth

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.lad/, [ˈwa.lad]
* Audio (Jerusalem):(file)

#### Noun

ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (ulād) or أولاد (ʔawlād))
* boy, kid, child
    هاد ولد جديد بصفّي. ― hād walad jdīd bi-ṣaffi ― This is a new kid in my class.
* son
    Synonym: ابن (ibn)

##### See also

* طفل (ṭifl, “young child, toddler”)
* صبي (ṣabi, “boy, young man”)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَلَد (walad).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʋə.ləd̪/

### Noun

وَلَد • (valad) m (Hindi spelling वलद)
* son
    Synonyms: بیٹا (beṭā), فرزند (farzand)
* offspring
    Synonym: اولاد (olād)
* boy
    Synonym: لڑکا (laṛkā)

### References

* “ولد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “ولد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.