stad

From Dutch stad, from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

• IPA^(key): /stat/

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stad (plural stede)

1. city

   Ons gaan nou stad toe.

   We are going to town now.

From Middle High German stat, a variant of stæt, whence German stet.

• IPA^(key): /ʃd̥aˑd̥/

stad

1. quiet, silent

   Sei stad! ― Be quiet!

• → German: stad

Borrowed from Old French estat.

• IPA^(key): /stad/

stad f (plural stadoù)

1. state

From Old Danish stath, from Old Norse staðr (“place, city”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz. Originally the same word as sted (“place”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsd̥að]

stad c (singular definite staden, plural indefinite stæder)

1. (dated) town, city

• stad on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da (redirects to "by")

From Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stat, stedi (whence stede, stee), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

The plural has preserved the old Germanic umlaut in a morphological function, a rarity in Dutch. Several derived terms have umlaut as well.

• IPA^(key): /stɑt/

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• Hyphenation: stad
• Rhymes: -ɑt

stad f (plural steden, diminutive stadje n)

1. city, town
2. the town/city centre

   Ik ben nu in de stad.

   I am now in town. I am now in the centre (of town).

   Ik ga de stad in.

   I am going into town.

• stads
• stadten

• Afrikaans: stad
• Berbice Creole Dutch: stati
• Jersey Dutch: stād
• Negerhollands: stadt, stad
• Skepi Creole Dutch: stat
• → Caribbean Javanese: setat
• → Papiamentu: stat, stad

Borrowed from Bavarian stad.

• IPA^(key): /ʃd̥aˑd̥/}

stad (strong nominative masculine singular stader, not comparable)

1. (Austria, Bavaria, Southern German, colloquial) quiet, silent

• stet
• stets

• “stad” in Duden online
• “stad” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

stad

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌳

From Old Irish stad, from Latin status, perfect passive participle of stō (“stand, remain”).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /sˠt̪ˠɑd̪ˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠt̪ˠad̪ˠ/

stad (present analytic stadann, future analytic stadfaidh, verbal noun stad, past participle stadta)

1. stop, halt, cease, stay

stad m (genitive singular stad, nominative plural stadanna)

1. verbal noun of stad
2. stop, halt
3. pause, cessation
4. hindrance, impediment
5. stop (stopping-place, e.g. bus or tram stop)

• grianstad (“solstice”)
• stad bus (“bus stop”)
• imeallstad (“marginal stop”)

From Arabic اِصْطادَ‎ (iṣṭāda).

• IPA^(key): /staːt/
• Homophone: stat

stad (imperfect jistad, past participle mistad)

1. to fish (catch fish)
2. to hunt

• Colloquially, the first and second persons of the perfect may be formed irregularly as stadejt, stadejna, stadejtu.

stad

1. Alternative form of stede (“place”)

From Danish stad, from Old Danish stath, from Old Norse staðr (“place, spot, city, town”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place, location”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, position”), from *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”) + *-tis (“derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots”).

stad m (definite singular staden, indefinite plural steder, definite plural stedene)

1. (literary) a (large) city, (also in compounds) town

• by

• bergstad
• hovedstad
• kjøpstad
• stadfeste

• sted

• “stad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stad” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /stɑː/

From Old Norse staðr, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

stad m (definite singular staden, indefinite plural stader or stadar, definite plural stadene or stadane)

1. place
2. city, town
3. situation

stad n (definite singular stadet, indefinite plural stad, definite plural stada)

1. river bank

• elvebard

Short form of av stad.

stad

1. away; off

   Han fór stad om morgonen.

   He went off in the morning.

• av stad
• av garde

• “stad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /stat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: stad

stad n

1. genitive plural of stado

• (Puter) sted
• (Vallader) stà

From Latin aestās, aestātem.

stad m (plural stads)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) summer

From Old Irish stad, from Latin status, perfect passive participle of stō (“stand, remain”).

stad (past stad, future stadaidh, verbal noun stadadh, past participle stadte)

1. stop, halt, pause

stad m (genitive singular stada, plural stadan)[1]

1. stop
2. pause

• grian-stad
• stad-phuing

From Old Swedish staþer, from Old Norse staðr, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis.

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• IPA^(key): /stɑːd/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Note that when used in compound words (e.g. stadsdel), stads- is pronounced IPA^(key): /stats/.

stad c

1. a town, a city

   Coordinate terms: by (“village”), samhälle (“community”), storstad (“large city”)

2. (obsolete, still in some compounds) stead, place
3. (weaving) a selvage

Today Sweden have no legal definition of stad, settlements are instead defined via the terms centralort (“central locality”) and tätort (“dense(-ly populated) locality”). However; in 1995 Statistics Sweden defined stad as a built-up area with more than ten-thousands inhabitants.

• → Finnish: Stadi

• stad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)