ad

• IPA^(key): /æd/

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• Rhymes: -æd
• Homophone: add

Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, advertiser.

ad (plural ads)

1. Abbreviation of advertisement.

   Synonym: advert

   I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.

2. Abbreviation of advertising.
3. Abbreviation of advertiser.

From a shortening of the word advantage.

ad (plural ads)

1. (tennis) Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.
   • 2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh And Not”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 5:

     [S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […] .

2. (debating) advantage

   ads and disads

• ad in
• ad out

From Latin ad (“to, on”).

ad

1. to, toward

• D. A., D.A., DA, Da, da

ad

1. Contraction of a + d.

   Basel isch glaubs scho chli, dass du wahrschinlich bis ad Uni chasch laufe.

   Basel is seemingly small, for you to go walking to uni.

From Proto-Turkic *āt.

• IPA^(key): [ɑd]

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ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

1. name, first name
   • 1899, Nariman Narimanov, Türk-Azərbaycan diliniŋ müxtəsər sərf-nəhvi [Concise grammar of the Azerbaijani Turkic language] 18:

     اونیگ آدی نه‌ در؟

     Onıŋ adı nədir? [=Onun adı nədir?]

     What is his/her name?

2. (grammar) noun

   Synonym: isim

• → Lezgi: ад (ad)

• IPA^(key): /ad/

ad

1. fire

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
• Stokhof (1975)

From Old Danish at, from Old Norse at, from Proto-Germanic *at.

• IPA^(key): [að], [a]
• Homophone: af

ad

1. by
2. at

• Norwegian Bokmål: ad

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈaðˀ]

ad

1. ew, bleah

• adr
• bvadr
• føj
• uf

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ad m (plural ads, diminutive [please provide])

1. (in NL-HaNA_1.04.02) Abbreviation of annō Dominī.

• ád (archaic)

From Proto-Uralic *ëmta-.[1][2][3] Cognates include Finnish antaa and Estonian andma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒd]

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

ad

1. (transitive) to give (to someone -nak/-nek; optionally as something -ul/-ül)

   Synonyms: átad, odaad, ajándékoz, nyújt, átnyújt

   Adok Sándornak egy könyvet. ― I give Sándor a book.

2. (transitive) to throw, organize, hold, give (a party/celebration/dinner, especially in honour of someone)

   Synonyms: rendez, szervez, tart, csap

   Vacsorát adtak a győztes tiszteletére. ― They held a dinner in the winner's honor.

   • 1854, Mór Jókai, chapter 19, in R. Nisbet Bain, transl., Egy magyar nábob, chapter XI (translation):

     Könnyű a férjnek azt mondani, én holnap vagy egy hónap múlva nagy ünnepélyt adok, hivatalos lesz rá az egész környék, akiket ismerek és olyanok is, akiket sohasem láttam. A többi az asszony gondja.

     It is easy enough for us men-folk to say, “I will give a great dinner-party to-morrow, or a month hence; and I will invite the whole country-side to it. I will invite not only those I know, but those I have never seen;” but it is our women-folk who have to take thought for it.

3. (transitive, arithmetic) Synonym of hozzáad (“to add”) (used with -hoz/-hez/-höz)
4. (often in the third person plural, with no subject) to broadcast (some programme on TV or the radio)

   Synonyms: (more technical sense) közvetít, sugároz

5. (slang, construed with definite conjugation and often null object) Synonym of tetszik (“to appeal to someone”)

• (arithmetic operations) művelet; összeadás ([össze-/hozzá-] ad); kivonás (kivon, elvesz); szorzás ([össze-/meg-] szoroz); osztás ([el-] oszt); hatványozás (hatványra emel); gyökvonás (gyököt von); logaritmálás (logaritmust számít/vesz/képez) ^{(Category: hu:Arithmetic)}

(With verbal prefixes):

• (to give): ad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (for [prefix of numbered issues; formal]): ad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ad in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

• (apocopic form) a

Borrowing from French à, Italian ad, Spanish a, all ultimately from Latin ad, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

• IPA^(key): /ad/

ad

1. to (movement, tendency or position)

   Antonyms: de, ek

   Il iris a la kirko. ― He went to church.

   Il venas de Paris a London. ― He is on his way from Paris to London.

   La hundo jetis su a la kato. ― The dog sprang at the cat.

   De la esto ad la westo. ― From east to west.

   De tempo a tempo. ― From time to time.

   De un dio a l'altra. ― From one day to another; From day to day.

   De la supro a l'infro. ― From top to bottom.

2. dative: indirect object

   Donez a me la bastono ― Give me the stick.

   Il parolis ad el. ― He spoke to her.

3. to (object of action, thought, desire)

   Il elevas su a la richeso e a la honori. ― He is rising to weather and honors.

   Atencema a la diskurso. ― Attentive to the discourse.

   Surda a la ditreso-krii. ― Deaf to the cries of distress.

   Amo a Deo. ― Love to God.

   Me deziras a vu omna feliceso. ― I wish you all happiness.

4. to (comparison or relation)

   Agreabla a la gusto. ― Agreeable to the taste.

   Ca okupo konvenas ad il. ― This occupation suits him.

5. proportion; total

   Tri raportas a non quale du a sis. ― Three is to nine as two is to six.

   Evaluar lua revenuo a 10.000 franki. ― To estimate his income as 10,000 francs.

   Taxar ol a 400 franki. ― To tax it at 400 francs.

• ad-
• al

• ed (“and”)
• od (“or”)

• vers
• til

• IPA^(key): /əd̪ˠ/

• dod, dod’, dot

ad (triggers lenition)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of do do (“to/for your sg”).

   Ní rabhas-sa ad phriocadh! ― I wasn't poking you!

• id, it

ad (triggers lenition)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of i do (“in your sg”).

From Latin ad.

• IPA^(key): /a.d‿/

ad

1. (before vowels) Alternative form of a for euphony, especially before /a/; to, at, in

   Dallo ad Adamo. ― Give it to Adam.

• da, da', dà

From Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognates include English at.

The accusative is from the hypothesized pre-PIE allative (or 'directional'), which merged with the accusative case in Proto-Italic.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad/, [äd̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad/, [äd̪]

ad (+ accusative)

1. (direction) toward, to
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 4:

     Fugere ad puppim collēs campīque videntur.

     The hills and fields appear to fly toward the ship.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2:

     Meridie umbrae cadunt ad septentrionem, ortu vero ad occasum.

     At noon the shadows fall towards the north, [and] at sunrise, point to the west.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.93:

     Duplices tendens ad sidera palmas.

     Stretching both hands to the stars.

2. up to (indicating direction upwards)
3. near, by, close by, at, to (indicating location)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.33:

     ad Murciae datae sedes

     the residences being given near the Murcia

4. against, on, upon (indicating position)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.27:

     Sē ad arborēs applicant.

     They are leaning against the trees.

5. at, about, around, on, in (indicating a point in time)
6. until, to, up to, till (indicating the extent of time)
7. for, to, toward (indicating purpose or aim)

   Ad maiōrem Deī glōriam.

   For the greater glory of God.

8. in order to, to, for (indicating means)

   Ad vim atque ad arma confugere.

   To resort to violence and to fighting.

9. in comparison with, in comparison to, in relation to
10. according to (indicating conformity)
11. in consequence of
12. against, at (indicating movement 'toward' but in a hostile manner)
13. among, amongst (indicating the sharing of a characteristic)

• The word ad is an antithesis to ab (just as in is to ex; in a progressive order of relation, ad denotes, first, the direction toward an object; then the reaching of or attaining to it; and finally, the being at or near it.)
• Often used of geographical position of a place in reference to the points of compass, with the verbs iaceō (“lie, be situated”), vergō (“incline, slope”), spectō (“observe, see”) etc.:

  Asia iacet ad meridiem et austrum, Europa ad septentriones et aquilonem.

  Asia lies near the prime meridian and the south, Europe near the northern regions and northern wind. (There are two words for north.)

  Ad Atticam vergente.

  Inclining to Attic.

• When appended to the beginning of a word beginning with a consonant, ad- often assimilates, e.g. becoming ap- in appretiō, from pretium, or ac- in accēdō, from cēdō. Note that unassimilated forms such as adpretiō are also found.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: a
• Dalmatian:
  • a
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: à
  • Italian: a(d) (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: a
• Western Romance of N. Italy:
  • Friulian: a
  • Ligurian: a
  • Romagnol: a
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: a
  • Franco-Provençal: a
  • Old French: a
    • French: à (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: a
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: a
  • Old Leonese: a
    • Asturian: a
    • Extremaduran: a
    • Leonese: a
    • Mirandese: a
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: a (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: a
• Borrowings:
  • → English: ad

• "ad", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ad", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ad in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

ad

1. third person plural pronoun; they, them

ad

1. story

From Proto-Oceanic *acan (“name”), from Proto-Austronesian *ŋajan (“name”)

ad

1. name

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *ajan

From Proto-Germanic *aidaz.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːd/

ād m

1. funeral pyre

• Middle English: ād

From Latin ad.

ad

1. Alternative form of a (to; towards)

From Latin habet.

ad

1. Alternative form of a; third-person singular present indicative of avoir

Unadapted borrowing from English ad.

ad m (plural ads)

1. (Brazil, chiefly Internet slang) ad (short for advertisement)

   Synonym: anúncio

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *axʷ (“I”). Compare Assan aj and Arin aj and Kott ai.

ad

1. I (first-person subjective singular)

• adɨŋ
• etnɨn
• ádɨŋ

ad n (plural aduri)

1. Obsolete form of iad.

• ad in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *āt.

• (Mengda, Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [ɑt][1][2]
• (Chahandusi, Jiezi, Gaizi, Daisho, Baizhuang, Tashapo (Mengda), Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Samuyuzi, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [ɑːt][3][4][5]

ad (3rd person possessive adı, plural adlar)

1. name

• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “миниң адимь Яхія дур”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 433
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “at, a:t”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 296
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985) “ad”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 8
• She, Xiu Cun (2015) “ɑt, ɑtʰ”, in 撒拉语语音研究 [Kunlun academic Series: Salar Phonetic Research]‎, China: 上海大学出版社, →ISBN
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “ad”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 3
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “ad”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 81
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “a:d”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 32
• “adını” in Ölmez, Mehmet (2012 December) “Oğuzların En Doğudaki Kolu: Salırlar ve Dilleri [The Easternmost Branch of the Oghuzs: Salars and Their Language]”, in Türk Dili (in Turkish), volume CII, number 732, pages 38-43

• IPA^(key): /ad/, [að]

ad

1. Alternative form of a, sometimes used before vowels

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “a²”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

• IPA^(key): /ad/

ad

1. Alternative form of a, found before a vowel
   • 1866, “Cap. IV, 10 [Chapter 4, verse 10]”, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎ (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, page 10:

     Allora Gesù li dizisi: Andaddinni, Satana: palchì è ilcrittu: Hai a adurà lu Signori Deju toju, e ad eddu solu hai a silvì.

     Then Jesus said to him: "Begone, Satan! For it is written "You shall adore the Lord your God, and Him alone you shall serve.""

Borrowed from English hat (compare Irish hata).

• IPA^(key): [at̪]

ad f (genitive singular aide, plural adan or adaichean)

1. hat

   ad a' bhile òir ― the gold-rimmed hat

   bile na h-aide ― the rim of the hat

ad

1. Romanization of 𒀜 (ad)

From Proto-Austronesian *qalad.

ād

1. fence
2. wall

From Ottoman Turkish آد (ad, “name”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ad, “name”), from Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑd/

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ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

1. name, first name, last name
2. noun
3. reputation, fame, name, repute

• isim
• san

• adlı
• adsız
• adamak
• atamak

Borrowed from Russian ад (ad).

ad

1. hell, underworld

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “ад”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

ad

1. for, in order to, to

• IPA^(key): /aːd/

ad

1. Soft mutation of gad.

ad

1. Alternative form of hadh (“had”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, pages 78[1]:

     Wich ad wough bethther kwingokee or baagchoosee vursth?

     Whether had we better churn or bake first?

ad

1. Alternative form of adh
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 6[2]:

     But zit ad hime wi vlaxen wheel,

     But sit at home with flaxen wheel,