# laden
## English
### Etymology

See lade.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleɪdən/, (colloquial) /ˈleɪdn̩/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪdən

### Adjective

laden (comparative more laden, superlative most laden)
* Weighed down with a load, burdened.
** 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.
* Heavy.
    His comments were laden with deeper meaning.
** 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 13:When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.
* Oppressed.
** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
* (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
    Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.

#### Derived terms

* debt-laden
* theory-laden
* value-laden

#### Translations
### Verb

laden
* past participle of lade

### Verb

laden (third-person singular simple present ladens, present participle ladening, simple past and past participle ladened)
* (archaic, poetic) To load or charge.
** 1889, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 54, number 8, page 357:The grass is smoothly cut; the trees are carefully pruned; the flowers, ladening the dreamy air with their perfume, are arranged in studied groups of exquisitely blended colors.

### Related terms

* ladle
* ballast
* larboard

### Anagrams

* eland, laned, naled, Nelda, Andel, lean'd, lande, Nadel, Dalen, Eland, Alden

## Danish
### Noun

laden c
* definite singular of lade
* verbal noun to lade (singular definite form only), letting, having, making, seeming, pretending
* verbal noun to lade (singular definite form only), loading, charging

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːdə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: la‧den
* Rhymes: -aːdən

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lāden, from Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

#### Verb

laden
* to load (cargo, a weapon, data)
* to charge (with electricity)

##### Derived terms

* laadpaal
* laadstation
* laadschop
* beladen
* herladen
* inladen
* opladen
* overladen
* uitladen

##### Descendants

* Negerhollands: ladin
* Petjo: lajen
* → Caribbean Hindustani: láde
* → Saramaccan: lái
* → Sranan Tongo: lai
** → Lokono: laidin

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lāden, from Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn (“to call”), from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to call”).

#### Verb

laden
* (archaic) to convocate
* (archaic) to invite

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

laden
* plural of lade
* plural of la

### Anagrams

* dalen, eland, lande

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːdən/, [-dən], [-dn̩]
* Hyphenation: la‧den

### Etymology 1

From Middle High German laden (strong verb), from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan. Compare English laden.

#### Verb

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)
* (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
    Antonyms: abladen, ausladen, herausholen, herausnehmen, herunternehmen, löschen
* (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
* (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
* (transitive, computing) to download from a network
* (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity

##### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

##### Synonyms

* (to load up): aufbürden, aufladen, auflasten, aufnehmen, aufpacken, befrachten, beladen, bepacken, beschweren, einladen, stauen, unterbringen, verladen, verstauen, vollladen, vollpacken
* (to load a weapon): nachladen
* (to download): downloaden, herunterladen, runterladen, übertragen
* (to charge): aufladen, elektrisieren

##### Derived terms

* abladen
* aufladen
* ausladen
* beiladen
* beladen
* einladen
* entladen
* herunterladen
* Ladefläche
* Ladegut
* Ladekapazität
* Ladeklappe
* nachladen
* überladen
* umladen
* verladen
* vollladen
* zuladen

##### Related terms

* Lade
* Laden
* Lader
* Ladung
* lästig

### Etymology 2

From Middle High German laden (weak verb, but also strong) from Old High German ladon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn.

#### Verb

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)
* (transitive) to invite
    Synonym: einladen
* (transitive, law) to summon

##### Usage notes

* In historical texts, weak forms such as ladest, ladet, ladete and geladet are also found.

##### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

##### Derived terms

* ausladen
* einladen
* vorladen

##### Related terms

* Laden

### Further reading

* “laden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “laden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “laden” in Duden online
* “laden” in Duden online

### Anagrams

* lande, Lande, Nadel

## Low German
### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lāden, from Old Saxon hladan.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːdn̩/, /ˈlaːdən/

#### Verb

laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)
* (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
* (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
* (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
* (transitive, computing) to download from a network
* (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity

##### Conjugation

Note: This conjugation is one of many. Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

##### Synonyms

* (to load up): opsacken, opladen, oppuckeln, oplasten, opnehmen, oppacken, befrachten, beladen, bepacken, inladen, stauen, ünnerbringen, verladen, verstauen, vullladen, vullpacken
* (to load a weapon): naladen
* (to download): downloaden, rünnerladen, överdregen
* (to charge): opladen, elektriseren

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “to load up”): afladen, utladen, ruthalen, rutnehmen, rünnernehmen, löschen

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German lāden, from Old Saxon lathōn.

#### Verb

laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)
* (transitive) to invite (someone)
* (transitive, law) to summon

##### Conjugation

Note: This conjugation is one of many. Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

##### Synonyms

* (to invite): inladen

##### Derived terms

* utladen
* inladen
* vörladen

## Malay
### Verb

laden
* to serve, attend

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan.

#### Verb

lāden
* to load (goods)
* to load (onto a beast of burden)
* to burden (with a task)

##### Descendants

* Dutch: laden
* Limburgish: laaje

### Etymology 2

From Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn (“to call”).

#### Verb

lāden
* (eastern) to call, to summon

##### Descendants

* Dutch: laden

### Further reading

* “laden”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “laden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “laden (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II