oud

See also: oud- and Oud

English

An oud.

Alternative forms

• 'ud

Etymology

From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːd/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːd

Noun

oud (plural ouds)

1. (music) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.

   Coordinate term: sintir

2. (perfume) Agarwood.

Derived terms

• oudist

Translations

Arabic plucked string instrument

• Arabic: عُود (ar) m (ʕūd)

  Egyptian Arabic: عُود (ʕūd)

  Gulf Arabic: عُود (ʕūd)

• Aramaic: ܥܘܕ

  Classical Syriac: ܥܘܕ (ūd)

• Armenian: ուդ (hy) (ud)
• Azerbaijani: ud (az)
• Belarusian: уд m (ud)
• Bulgarian: уд m (ud)
• Catalan: ud m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 烏德琴／乌德琴 (wu¹ dak¹ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 烏德琴／乌德琴 (wūdéqín)

• Czech: úd (cs) m
• Dutch: oed (nl) m
• Esperanto: udo (eo)
• Estonian: uud
• Finnish: ud (fi)
• Galician: ud m
• German: Ud (de) f, Oud f
• Greek: ούτι (el) f (oúti), ούτια f pl (oútia)
• Hebrew: העוד m (ha-ud), עוד (he) m (oud)
• Hindi: औद m (aud)
• Hungarian: úd (hu)
• Japanese: ウード (ūdo)
• Korean: 우드 (udeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: عوود ('ûd)

  Northern Kurdish: ûd (ku)

• Ladino: ut m
• Lithuanian: ūdas m
• Macedonian: уд m (ud)
• Mehri: طرب
• Occitan: ud m
• Persian: عود (fa) ('ud)
• Polish: ud (pl) m
• Portuguese: ud m
• Punjabi: ਊਦ (ūda)
• Russian: уд (ru) m (ud)
• Serbo-Croatian: оуд m, oud m
• Slovak: úd m
• Somali: kaban, cuud
• Spanish: laúd árabe m, ud (es) m
• Swahili: udi
• Thai: อู๊ด (th) (úut)
• Turkish: ud (tr), ut (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎄 (ʿd)
• Ukrainian: уд m (ud)
• Uzbek: ud (uz)

See also

• oud bruin

 

Further reading

• oud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 2010. Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn. Pg. 73.

Anagrams

• Duo, duo, duo-, udo

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch oud, from Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

oud (attributive ou, comparative ouer, superlative oudste)

1. old

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈou̯t]

Noun

oud m inan

1. (archaic) Alternative form of úd

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• oud in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• oud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”).

Compare German alt, West Frisian âld, Low German old, English old.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯t/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

Adjective

oud (comparative ouder, superlative oudst)

1. old

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

2. stale (of bread)

Inflection

Inflection of oud
uninflected	oud
inflected	oude
comparative	ouder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		oud	ouder	het oudst het oudste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	oude	oudere	oudste
	n. sing.	oud	ouder	oudste
	plural	oude	oudere	oudste
definite		oude	oudere	oudste
partitive		ouds	ouders	—

Next to the regular form oude, the form ouwe is also used informally.

Derived terms

• gouwe ouwe
• jong geleerd is oud gedaan
• op een oude fiets moet je het leren
• oude jongens krentenbrood
• ouder
• oudere
• oudheid
• oudje
• verouderen

 

Related terms

• ouwe

Descendants

• Afrikaans: oud
• Berbice Creole Dutch: hau
• Jersey Dutch: āud, āut
• Negerhollands: oud, ouw, houw, hou
• Skepi Creole Dutch: ou, oud
• West Flemish: elde

Anagrams

• duo

Portuguese

Noun

oud m (plural ouds)

1. Alternative spelling of ud