Rad

Meaning

1. (neuter, strong) wheel
2. (neuter, strong) cartwheel
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, neuter, strong) clipping of Fahrrad; bicycle

Concepts

wheel

🛞

bike

🚲

bicycle

🚲

cycle

rad

cartwheel

wheels

breaking on the wheel

idler gear

impeller

paving stone

castor

runner

🏃

bogie wheel

wheel

🛞

wheel

🛞

Wheel

one flower

running wheel

pushbike

disc

disk

Synonyms

Fahrrad

🚲

Velo

🚲

Drahtesel

🚲

Rover

Zweirad

Reifen

Radl

🚲

Bike

Hirsch

🦌

Wagenrad

Luftreifen

Pneu

runde Scheibe

Komplettbereifung

Komplettreifen

Bereifung

Velo

🚲

Blüte

🌼

dreht

Kreis

⭕

Kreisscheibe

Pflasterstein

Platte

Räder

Radspur

Runde

Scheibe

Walze

Translations

rueda

🛞

roue

🛞

ruota

🛞

roda

🛞

fiets

🚲

wiel

🛞

rota

🛞

vélo

🚲

bicicleta

🚲

bicyclette

🚲

rijwiel

🚲

bicicletta

🚲

ρόδα

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

raad

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁaːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: rat

Inherited from Old High German: rad

Cognate with Swedish: ratt

Cognate with Finnish: ratti

Cognate with English: rotary

Cognate with Spanish: rueda

Cognate with Latin: rota

Borrowed from English: rad

In summary

From Middle High German rat, from Old High German rad, from Proto-West Germanic *raþ, from Proto-Germanic *raþą, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).
Related to Swedish ratt (“steering wheel”) and Finnish ratti (“steering wheel”). Also related to English rotary and Spanish rueda (“wheel”), which descended from the same PIE root through Latin rota.