d

See also: D, d', and Appendix:Variations of "d"

d U+0064, d
LATIN SMALL LETTER D
c
[U+0063]
Basic Latin e
[U+0065]

Translingual

Etymology 1

Modification of capital letter D, from Ancient Greek letter Δ (D, Delta).

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Usage notes

The letter d is used in the alphabets of many languages, and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the voiced alveolar or dental plosive (/d/). In some languages and transcription systems, d may also represent other sounds, such as /t/ or /ð/.

See also

Etymology 2

Lower case form of upper case roman numeral D, a standardization of D or Ð, from tally stick markings resembling a superimposed Ɔ and , from the practice of encircling each hundredth notch.

Alternative forms

Numeral

d (lower case Roman numeral, upper case D)

  1. cardinal number five hundred (500).
Usage notes

With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as d, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).

See also
  • Lesser roman numeral symbol: c (100)
  • Greater roman numeral symbol: m (1000)
  • Roman numerals

Pronunciation

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Symbol

d

  1. (mathematics) the (path-independent, exact) differential of a quantity
  2. (IPA) voiced alveolar plosive

See also

  • (IPA): t (voiceless alveolar plosive)
  • (mathematics): δ

Other representations of D:


English

Etymology 1

Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ, the Old English letter replaced by Latin d

Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter .

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /diː/
    • Rhymes: -iː
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/
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Letter

d (lower case, upper case D, plural ds or d's)

  1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

See also

Derived terms

Number

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

  • (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
  • (dice): abbreviation of dice

d

  1. Abbreviation of died or death.
    William Shakespeare, d 1616
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
    exception: dz 'does'
  3. (stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-

Adjective

d

  1. (cricket) Abbreviation of declared.
    Synonym: dec

Adverb

d

  1. (crosswords) Abbreviation of down.
    Do you have the answer for 23d?
  2. (Malaysia)(informal) Abbreviation of already. Used to form the perfect tenses. Used in text messages.
    Come d.
    Done d.

Prefix

d

  1. (stenoscript) the prefix dis- or des-

Symbol

d

  1. (until February 1971) a British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).
    £sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”
  2. (dice games) Die or dice
    d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides
    2d6 — the sum of the roll of two six-sided dice
  3. penny, a measure of the size of nails

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d(ə)/

Letter

d (d) (upper case D, lower case d)

  1. The 5th letter of the Standard Albanian Latin-script alphabet.
  2. The 7th letter of the Arvanitic Albanian Greek-script alphabet.

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Alemannic German

Article

d f

  1. (definite) the
    • 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
      Di nöchscht rächts. Mir fared i d’Fäldschtrass.
      The next right. We'll drive down Feldstrasse.

d pl

  1. (definite) the

Declension

Alemannic German definite articles
Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative/Accusative de
dr (Bern)
d s
ds (Bern)
d
Dative em der em de
  • Masculine nominative/accusative singular de has the form der before a vowel, e.g. der alt Maa ‘the old man’
  • Dative plural de has the form den before a vowel, e.g. den alte Fraue ‘(to) the old women’
  • Feminine singular d and plural d have the variant di before an adjective, e.g. di jung Mueter ‘the young mother’

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d lower case (upper case D)

  1. The fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de/, [d̪e̞]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Basque alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

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Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of d – see (“a few; a little bit; some; a bit; a bit more; etc.”).
(This character, d, is a variant form of .)

Etymology 2

From English differentiate or the differentiation symbol d.

Pronunciation

Verb

d

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, mathematics) to differentiate
  • in (in1, “to integrate”)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /deː/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

  • Previous letter: c
  • Next letter: e

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /do/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/
  • (file)
  • Homophone (letter name): do (so, therefore)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fifth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called do and written in the Latin script.

See also


Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̥eː/, [ˈd̥eː]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

See also


Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t/

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Fijian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ⁿd/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Fijian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdeː/, [ˈde̞ː] (name of letter)
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes
  • Used only in loanwords except for the weak grade of t.
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

d

  1. (music) D (note)
Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de/
  • (file)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:
      [À] peine les petits oiseaux nuancés de mille couleurs avaient-ils salué des harpes de leurs langues, dans une douce et mielleuse harmonie, la venue de l’aurore au teint de rose, ... que le fameux chevalier don Quichotte de la Manche ... prit sa route à travers l’antique et célèbre plaine de Montiel.
      [S]carce had the little birds shaded of a thousand colours hailed from the harps of their tongues, in a soft and mellifluous harmony, the coming of the pink-tinted dawn, ... when the famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha ... took his route across the ancient and famous Campo de Montiel.

Fula

Pronunciation

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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Gothic

Romanization

d

  1. Romanization of 𐌳

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈd]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈdeː]
  • (file)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The sixth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative d d-k
accusative d-t d-ket
dative d-nek d-knek
instrumental d-vel d-kkel
causal-final d-ért d-kért
translative d-vé d-kké
terminative d-ig d-kig
essive-formal d-ként d-kként
essive-modal
inessive d-ben d-kben
superessive d-n d-ken
adessive d-nél d-knél
illative d-be d-kbe
sublative d-re d-kre
allative d-hez d-khez
elative d-ből d-kből
delative d-ről d-kről
ablative d-től d-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
d-é d-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
d-éi d-kéi
Possessive forms of d
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. d-m d-im
2nd person sing. d-d d-id
3rd person sing. d-je d-i
1st person plural d-nk d-ink
2nd person plural d-tek d-itek
3rd person plural d-jük d-ik

Derived terms

Compound words

See also

Further reading

  • (sound and letter): d in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (musical note and its key/position): d in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • d 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 2023)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /tjɛː/

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Ido

Pronunciation

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /d/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /de/

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /de/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Letter

d f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Italian alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script.

Kabyle

Etymology

From Proto-Berber *d. Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight (d).

Particle

d

  1. (copula) to be
    D tidett!
    It's true!
    Nekk d anelmad.
    I am a student.

Particle

d

  1. proximal particle; suffixed onto verbs to indicate a direction towards an inferred reference point

Conjunction

d

  1. and
    Nekk d gma neggan.
    Me and my brother were sleeping.

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [d]
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Letter

D

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The sixth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

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Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d̪/

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The sixth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Lushootseed

Letter

d

  1. The ninth letter of the Lushootseed alphabet, pronounced as a voiced alveolar stop.

Malay

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d/
  • IPA(key): /t/ (per final devoicing or assimilation to a following voiceless obstruent)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /deː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/, (in rd) /ɖ/
  • (file)

Letter

d

  1. The fourth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /deː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/, (in rd) /ɖ/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: det

Letter

d (upper case D, definite singular d-en, indefinite plural d-er, definite plural d-ene)

  1. The fourth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /deː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/, (in rd) /ɖ/
  • (file)
  • Homophones: de, det

Letter

d (upper case D, definite singular d-en, indefinite plural d-ar, definite plural d-ane)

  1. The fourth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

  • (det): abbreviation
  • (død): abbreviation

Pronoun

d

  1. Abbreviation of det.

Article

d

  1. Abbreviation of det.

Adjective

d

  1. Abbreviation of død.

References


Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛ/

Letter

d (upper case D, lower case)

  1. The sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

See also

Further reading

  • d in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • d in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

d m (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of dom. (as a title)

Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The sixth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called de or and written in the Latin script.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase): D

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d (Cyrillic spelling д)

  1. The 6th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by ć and followed by .


Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The eighth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

Etymology 1

From Gaj's Latin alphabet d, from Czech alphabet d, from Latin d, which is a modification of capital letter D, from Ancient Greek letter Δ (D, Delta). Pronunciation as IPA(key): /də/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German d.

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/, [p]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /də́/, /dèː/, /déː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: , -eː

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fifth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The seventh letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  3. The fifth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Symbol

d

  1. (SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [d].
Noun

d m inan

  1. The name of the Latin script letter D / d.
  2. (linguistics) The name of the phoneme /d/.
Inflection
  • Overall more common
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. d
gen. sing. d-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
d d-ja d-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
d-ja d-jev d-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
d-ju d-jema d-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
d d-ja d-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
d-ju d-jih d-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
d-jem d-jema d-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. d
gen. sing. d
singular dual plural
nominative d d d
accusative d d d
genitive d d d
dative d d d
locative d d d
instrumental d d d

Etymology 2

From da with the same meaning, from Proto-Slavic *da, from Proto-Indo-European *doh₂, which is pronoun Proto-Indo-European *de-, Proto-Indo-European *do- 'this' in lative case. Simplification occurred due to modern vowel reduction as the final /a/ reduced to /ə/.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /də́/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes:

Conjunction

d

  1. (colloquial) that, so that, so
    2007 October 11, “Športna medicina: forum”, in The nutriitiion.com:
    ko treniraš s prevelikimi težami si rekel d se rast ustavi, ker telo vso enrgijo porab za mišice, kaj pa če s tem prenehaš a pol se rast spet začne?
    When you are training with too heavy weights, you said that the growth stops because the body uses all the energy for the muscles, but what if you stop doing it, does the growth begin again?

See also

Further reading

  • d”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (phoneme) /d/, [ð̞]
  • IPA(key): (letter name) /ˈde/ [ˈd̪e]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Swedish

Pronoun

d

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Pronunciation spelling of det (it).

Article

d

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Pronunciation spelling of det (it).

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d/
  • (letter: modern alphabet) IPA(key): /di/, [dɪ]
  • (letter: Abakada) IPA(key): /da/, [dɐ]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Tagalog alphabet, called di or da and written in the Latin script.

See also

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /diʔ/, [dɪʔ]

Adverb

d

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Alternative form of di

Turkish

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fifth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /d/

Letter

d (upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): (north) IPA(key): /z/, (south) IPA(key): /j/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The sixth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /diː/
    • (informal) IPA(key): /də/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by ch and followed by dd.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
draig ddraig nraig unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), chapter D, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /dí/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The third letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called and written in the Latin script.

See also


Zulu

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

  1. The fourth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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