dad
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”).
* Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad.
* Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da.
* Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).
Inflected forms:
form: dads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dadde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dadding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dadded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dadded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dadde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A father, a male parent.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: His dad was always there for him.
A lot of the power for dads comes in the form of modeling. As much as dads can teach their sons directly and guide them in the world, they also provide an example of who their children can aim to be as they grow up, Singley said.
“There are going to be the times when as the dad I’m going to screw up,” he said.
gloss: Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
pos: noun
examples: Happy Father's Day, dad!
gloss: Used to address an older adult male.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To be a father to; to parent.
pos: verb
gloss: To act like a dad.
pos: verb
Related words: da
dada
daddio
daddy
grandpappy
mum
mom
sire
Derived words: ballet dad
bank of mum and dad
biodad
bonus dad
dad-blamed
dad bod
dadbod
dad burn
dad-burned
dadchelor party
dadcore
dad dancer
dad dancing
dad-dancing
daddish
dadhood
dadication
dad joke
dadless
dadlike
dadly
dadness
dadpreneur
dadrock
dadship
dad shower
dadsplain
dadvice
deadbeat dad
do-dad
doo-dad
eagle dad
granddad
ho-dad
Instadad
insta-dad
seahorse dad
soccer dad
stay-at-home dad
stepdad
superdad
weekend dad
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أبي
lang: Arabic
word: بابا
lang: Bashkir
word: атай
roman: atay
lang: Ndzwani Comorian
word: ɓɓangu
lang: Esperanto
word: paĉjo
lang: Finnish
word: isi
lang: French
word: papa
lang: German
word: Papa
lang: German
word: Papi
lang: German
word: Vati
lang: Hebrew
word: אַבָּא
roman: ába
lang: Irish
word: deaide
lang: Irish
word: daid
lang: Italian
word: papà
lang: Italian
word: babbo
lang: Italian
word: pà
lang: Japanese
word: お父さん
roman: otōsan
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: pap
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: papa
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: papi
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: popa
lang: Māori
word: e para
lang: Marshallese
word: baba
lang: Polish
word: tata
lang: Polish
word: tato
lang: Polish
word: tatuś
lang: Portuguese
word: papá
lang: Russian
word: па́па
roman: pápa
lang: Russian
word: тя́тя
roman: tjátja
lang: Russian
word: ба́тя
roman: bátja
lang: Russian
word: ба́тюшка
roman: bátjuška
lang: Spanish
word: papá