ad

• IPA^(key): /æd/

• Audio (US):

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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.

Other scripts

Cyrillic		ад
Abjad		آد

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

Declension of ad
	singular	plural
nominative	ad	adlar
definite accusative	adı	adları
dative	ada	adlara
locative	adda	adlarda
ablative	addan	adlardan
definite genitive	adın	adların

Possessive forms of ad
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	adım	adlarım
sənin (“your”)	adın	adların
onun (“his/her/its”)	adı	adları
bizim (“our”)	adımız	adlarımız
sizin (“your”)	adınız	adlarınız
onların (“their”)	adı or adları	adları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	adımı	adlarımı
sənin (“your”)	adını	adlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	adını	adlarını
bizim (“our”)	adımızı	adlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	adınızı	adlarınızı
onların (“their”)	adını or adlarını	adlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	adıma	adlarıma
sənin (“your”)	adına	adlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	adına	adlarına
bizim (“our”)	adımıza	adlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	adınıza	adlarınıza
onların (“their”)	adına or adlarına	adlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	adımda	adlarımda
sənin (“your”)	adında	adlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	adında	adlarında
bizim (“our”)	adımızda	adlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	adınızda	adlarınızda
onların (“their”)	adında or adlarında	adlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	adımdan	adlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	adından	adlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	adından	adlarından
bizim (“our”)	adımızdan	adlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	adınızdan	adlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	adından or adlarından	adlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	adımın	adlarımın
sənin (“your”)	adının	adlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	adının	adlarının
bizim (“our”)	adımızın	adlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	adınızın	adlarınızın
onların (“their”)	adının or adlarının	adlarının

• → 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 or dialectal)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒd]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

ad

1. (transitive) to give or shift (something) to or near someone or somewhere

   Synonyms: átad, juttat, helyez, nyújt

   Hyponyms: idead, odaad

   1. (transitive) to serve (food or drink) to someone (-nak/-nek); to set down (food or drink) to be consumed

      Reggelit adtunk a gyerekeknek. ― We gave breakfast to the children.

2. (transitive) to give (something) to someone (-nak/-nek) as a gift, donation etc.

   Synonyms: adományoz, ajándékoz

   Adtam Sándornak egy könyvet. ― I gave Sándor a book.

3. (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.

4. (transitive, arithmetic) to add (-hoz/-hez/-höz)

   Synonym: hozzáad

5. (transitive) to perform (a play, show etc.); to screen (a film); to broadcast (a program)

   Synonyms: bemutat, játszik, előad, közvetít, sugároz

   A moziban nem adták az új filmet. ― The new film was not screened at the cinema.

   Melyik csatorna adja a mérkőzést? ― Which channel is broadcasting the match?

6. (transitive, slang) to rule, rock; to be giving [with null object]

   Nagyon adja az új lemez! ― The new album is really great!

7. (transitive, slang) to like, enjoy, dig; to vibe with; to agree with (something)

   Synonyms: élvez, kedvel, (informal) bír, (slang) csíp, (slang) szétad

   Nagyon adom ezt az ötletet. ― I am really into this idea.

• (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 Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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

• at

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 Latin) 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, *ajan (“name”). Cognate with Pohnpeian ahd.

ad

1. name

• adanki (“to 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
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “ad”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[1], 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]‎^[2], 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] (in Chinese), 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^[3], 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]‎^[4] (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)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑd/

• Audio:

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ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

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

Inflection
Nominative	ad
Definite accusative	adı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ad	adlar
Definite accusative	adı	adları
Dative	ada	adlara
Locative	adda	adlarda
Ablative	addan	adlardan
Genitive	adın	adların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular adım adlarım 2nd singular adın adların 3rd singular adı adları 1st plural adımız adlarımız 2nd plural adınız adlarınız 3rd plural adları adları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular adımı adlarımı 2nd singular adını adlarını 3rd singular adını adlarını 1st plural adımızı adlarımızı 2nd plural adınızı adlarınızı 3rd plural adlarını adlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular adıma adlarıma 2nd singular adına adlarına 3rd singular adına adlarına 1st plural adımıza adlarımıza 2nd plural adınıza adlarınıza 3rd plural adlarına adlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular adımda adlarımda 2nd singular adında adlarında 3rd singular adında adlarında 1st plural adımızda adlarımızda 2nd plural adınızda adlarınızda 3rd plural adlarında adlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular adımdan adlarımdan 2nd singular adından adlarından 3rd singular adından adlarından 1st plural adımızdan adlarımızdan 2nd plural adınızdan adlarınızdan 3rd plural adlarından adlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular adımın adlarımın 2nd singular adının adlarının 3rd singular adının adlarının 1st plural adımızın adlarımızın 2nd plural adınızın adlarınızın 3rd plural adlarının adlarının

• isim
• san

• adlı
• adsız
• adamak
• atamak

Borrowed from Russian ад (ad), from Old Church Slavonic адъ (adŭ), from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

ad

1. hell, underworld

Inflection of ad (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	ad
genitive sing.	adun
partitive sing.	adud
partitive plur.	aduid
	singular	plural
nominative	ad	adud
accusative	adun	adud
genitive	adun	aduiden
partitive	adud	aduid
essive-instructive	adun	aduin
translative	aduks	aduikš
inessive	adus	aduiš
elative	aduspäi	aduišpäi
illative	aduhu	aduihe
adessive	adul	aduil
ablative	adulpäi	aduilpäi
allative	adule	aduile
abessive	aduta	aduita
comitative	adunke	aduidenke
prolative	adudme	aduidme
approximative I	adunno	aduidenno
approximative II	adunnoks	aduidennoks
egressive	adunnopäi	aduidennopäi
terminative I	aduhusai	aduihesai
terminative II	adulesai	aduilesai
terminative III	adussai	—
additive I	aduhupäi	aduihepäi
additive II	adulepäi	aduilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “ад”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[5], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

ad

1. for, in order to, to
   • 1937, “‚Johann Martin Schleyer’”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:

     Dü lif vobafulik oka ekanom tuvön timi ad studön pükis e dialegis 88 difikis, ed ad pläyön degtelati musigömas.

     During his working life, he managed to find the time to study 88 different languages and dialects, and to play twelve musical instruments.

• 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,