spade

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
2. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Verb

To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Sinónimos

shovel

hoe

trowel

dig

scoop

jigaboo

coon

grub

nigra

nigger

mattock

till

digger

gibe

handle

jab

plowshare

poke

shove

spoon

🥄

string

🪢

tool

nigga

spado

peak

pick

⛏️

pick-axe

plough

plow

grafting tool

cane

pot

ridge

chisel

burrow

cauldron

spathe

spay

spit

hoe in general

stick

scoop shovel

axe

🪓

toad

backing-off

casserole

digging tool

flense

Negro

heavy

fire irons

hot pot

how

marmite

kettle

eunuch

dig up

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/speɪd/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: spade

Herdado de Old English: spada

Relativo a neerlandés: spade

Relativo a Old Frisian: spada

Relativo a Old Saxon: spado

Relativo a alemán: Spaten

Relativo a Hunsrik: Spaad

Relativo a grego antigo: σπάθη

Relativo a Hittite: 𒅖𒉺𒀀𒋻

Relativo a persa: سپار

Relativo a luri setentrional: ئەسپار

Relativo a kurdo central: ئەسپەر

In summary

From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ, *spadô, *spadō (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”), Hittite 𒅖𒉺𒀀𒋻 (išpatar, “spear”), Persian سپار (sopâr, “plow”), Northern Luri ئەسپار (aspār, “digging”) and Central Kurdish ئەسپەر (esper), ئەسپەرە (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”). Distant doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.

Frases

Henderson stood up with a spade in his hand .