blad
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- blaud (Scotland)
Etymology
[edit]Apparently from a dialectal variant of blade. Compare Danish blad (“leaf”), Swedish blad (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]blad (plural blads)
- (Scotland) A portfolio.
- (Scotland) A blotting book or blotting pad.
- (Scotland) A fragment or lump.
- (Australia, wholesale, food trade) A single sheet for use in a display book, illustrating a particular product available from a wholesaler.
Usage notes
[edit]- In Australia, this term is normally only used in the confectionery and soft drink markets.
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch blad. Doublet of blaar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blad (plural blaaie, diminutive blaadjie)
Bavarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- blaad (alternative spelling)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]blad
Adjective
[edit]blad
- (Austria, Vienna, derogatory) fat, corpulent
- Synonyms: ausgfressn, gfüd, stoak
Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse blað, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃oto, from *bʰleh₃-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blad n (singular definite bladet, plural indefinite blade)
Inflection
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- blad on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2
[edit]See blade (“to turn over pages”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]blad
- imperative of blade
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch blat, from Old Dutch *blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃oto, from *bʰleh₃-. Compare German Blatt, English blade.
Noun
[edit]blad n (plural bladeren or (rare) bladen or (dialectal, archaic, poetic) blaren, diminutive blaadje n)
- a leaf (of a plant)
- Synonym: loof
- De bladeren begonnen al te verkleuren en enkele zijn reeds gevallen.
- The leaves began to change colour already and some have already fallen off.
- Die olifant lust wel een groen blaadje.
- That elephant would like to eat a green leaf.
Noun
[edit]blad n (plural bladen, diminutive blaadje n)
- a sheet of paper, leaf (in a book)
- Synonym: vel
- Steek je hand op als je een nieuw blad nodig hebt.
- Raise your hand if you need a new sheet of paper.
- a page
- a magazine or other periodical publication
- Heb je dat nieuwe blad over lokale podiumkunst al gelezen? ― Have you already read that new magazine about local performing arts?
- the flat section on the upper side of a table or desk
- Synonyms: bureaublad, tafelblad
- Omdat mijn lamp erop viel zit er een diepe deuk in het blad. ― There is a deep dent in the tabletop, because my lamp fell on it.
- the broad, flat blade of a weapon or tool; a blade
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: blad
- Afrikaans: blaar (back-formed from the plural)
- Berbice Creole Dutch: blaru (from the plural)
- Jersey Dutch: blât
- Negerhollands: blaaer, blaër (from the plural)
- → Caribbean Javanese: blatye (from the diminutive)
- → Indonesian: belat
- → Papiamentu: blachi (from the diminutive), blaadsji, blaadji, blat
- → Sranan Tongo: blat
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch blat, from Old Dutch blāt. Possibly related to French blé (“wheat”), itself of Frankish/Germanic origin.
Noun
[edit]blad n (plural bladen)
Alternative forms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Bavarian blad (literally “blown up”); see blühen (“to bloom, blow up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blad (strong nominative masculine singular blader, comparative blader, superlative am bladesten)
Declension
[edit]number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist blad | sie ist blad | es ist blad | sie sind blad | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | blader | blade | blades | blade |
genitive | bladen | blader | bladen | blader | |
dative | bladem | blader | bladem | bladen | |
accusative | bladen | blade | blades | blade | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der blade | die blade | das blade | die bladen |
genitive | des bladen | der bladen | des bladen | der bladen | |
dative | dem bladen | der bladen | dem bladen | den bladen | |
accusative | den bladen | die blade | das blade | die bladen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein blader | eine blade | ein blades | (keine) bladen |
genitive | eines bladen | einer bladen | eines bladen | (keiner) bladen | |
dative | einem bladen | einer bladen | einem bladen | (keinen) bladen | |
accusative | einen bladen | eine blade | ein blades | (keine) bladen |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist blader | sie ist blader | es ist blader | sie sind blader | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bladerer | bladere | bladeres | bladere |
genitive | bladeren | bladerer | bladeren | bladerer | |
dative | bladerem | bladerer | bladerem | bladeren | |
accusative | bladeren | bladere | bladeres | bladere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der bladere | die bladere | das bladere | die bladeren |
genitive | des bladeren | der bladeren | des bladeren | der bladeren | |
dative | dem bladeren | der bladeren | dem bladeren | den bladeren | |
accusative | den bladeren | die bladere | das bladere | die bladeren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein bladerer | eine bladere | ein bladeres | (keine) bladeren |
genitive | eines bladeren | einer bladeren | eines bladeren | (keiner) bladeren | |
dative | einem bladeren | einer bladeren | einem bladeren | (keinen) bladeren | |
accusative | einen bladeren | eine bladere | ein bladeres | (keine) bladeren |
Further reading
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]blad
- Alternative form of blade
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse blað, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃oto, from *bʰleh₃-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blad n (definite singular bladet, indefinite plural blad or blader, definite plural blada or bladene)
- a blade (sharp-edged or pointed working end of a tool or utensil)
- a leaf
- a newspaper, magazine or periodical
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “blad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse blað, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃oto, from *bʰleh₃-.
Noun
[edit]blad n (definite singular bladet, indefinite plural blad, definite plural blada)
- a blade (as above)
- a leaf
- a newspaper, magazine or periodical
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “blad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃oto, from *bʰleh₃-.
Compare Old English blæd, Old Frisian bled, Old High German blat, Old Norse blað.
Noun
[edit]blad n
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | blad | bladu |
accusative | blad | bladu |
genitive | blades | bladō |
dative | blade | bladum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish blaþ, from Old Norse blað, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃otom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. Cognate with English blade.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blad n
- (botany) a leaf (including in the broad sense that includes needles and the like (to botanists and often not to other people, in both Swedish and English – not a technical word in itself))
- a petal or sepal (on a flower)
- a sheet (of paper)
- Synonym: papper (larger, for writing on, printing, or the like)
- Synonyms: ark, pappersark (larger, for writing on)
- (colloquial) a paper ((copy of a) newspaper)
- läsa något i morgonbladet
- read something in the morning paper
- Aftonbladet
- The Evening Paper (large daily tabloid newspaper)
- 1968, Cornelis Vreeswijk (lyrics and music), “Personliga Person [Personal Person]”, in Tio vackra visor och Personliga Person [Ten beautiful songs and Personal Person][1]:
- ["Person" is pronounced like the last name "Persson" in this song] Personliga Person satt en morgon vid frukostbordet och läste i morgonbladet att det senaste lustmordet bjöd på en mängd pikanta detaljer. Mördaren hade använt vissa attiraljer. Dessa nämndes i bladet, och det var ju bra det.
- Personal Person sat one morning at the breakfast table and read in the morning paper that the latest lust murder offered a range of piquant details. The killer had used certain paraphernalia. These were mentioned in the paper, and that's good [literally, "and that was good," or – see ju – "and yeah, that was good," "and that was good, of course," or the like].
- a blade (on a tool, device, weapon, or the like)
- Synonym: (on a larger tool or weapon, like a sword) klinga
- knivens blad
- the blade of the knife
- propellerblad
- propeller blades
- leaf (thin sheet of material)
- bladguld
- gold leaf
Usage notes
[edit]- Leaves from trees on the ground that are raked are idiomatically always löv rather than blad.
- A blade of grass is a grässtrå.
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | blad | blads |
definite | bladet | bladets | |
plural | indefinite | blad | blads |
definite | bladen | bladens |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- blad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- blad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- blad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Torres Strait Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]blad
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