dad

Meaning

Noun

1. (informal) A father, a male parent.
2. Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
3. (slang) Used to address an older adult male.

Verb

1. To be a father to; to parent.
2. To act like a dad.

Verb

To throw against something; to dash.

Synonyms

father

👨‍👦

daddy

👨‍👦

papa

👨‍👦

pop

dada

pa

pappa

sire

paw

male parent

teacher

🧑‍🏫

Dad

👨‍👦

Father

👨‍👦

Lord

Pa

daddy-o

begetter

fader

gramps

master

mom

👩‍🍼

parent

pater

poppa

pops

Translations

papa

👨‍👦

papá

👨‍👦

Papa

👨‍👦

Vati

👨‍👦

papà

👨‍👦

μπαμπάς

padre

👨‍👦

baba

👨‍👦

babbo

👨‍👦

pappa

papai

👨‍👦

pai

👨‍👦

Papi

👨‍👦

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dæd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *dadde

Cognate with Welsh: -

Cognate with Breton: tad

Cognate with Old Irish: data

Cognate with Russian: дя́дя

Cognate with Russian: де́душка

Cognate with Old English: *ætta

Cognate with Northern Frisian: ate

Cognate with Middle High German: tate

Cognate with German: Tate

Cognate with Bavarian: tatte

Cognate with Cimbrian: tatta

Cognate with Icelandic: táta

Cognate with Sanskrit: तत

In summary

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”).
* 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”).

Sentences

Her dad makes the best chipotle in town !