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Etymology
From Old English spadu, spada, from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spathē, “blade”), Hittite išpatar (“spear”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spade (plural spades)
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
- A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- I've got only one spade in my hand.
- (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Related terms
Translations
a garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging
- Afrikaans: graaf
- Albanian: lopatë (sq) f, kaci (sq) m
- Arabic: مجرفة (ar) (míjrafa) f
- Armenian: բահ (hy) (bah)
- Azeri: kürək (az)
- Bashkir: көрәк (körək)
- Belarusian: рыдлёўка (be) (rydljóŭka) f, лапата (be) (lapáta) f
- Bulgarian: лопата (bg) (lopáta) f
- Chechen: баьхьа (bäẋa), бел (bel)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鏟 (cmn), 铲 (cmn) (chǎn), 鏟子 (cmn), 铲子 (cmn) (chǎnzi), 鍬 (cmn), 锹 (cmn) (qiāo), 鐵鍬 (cmn), 铁锹 (cmn) (tiěqiāo), 鐵杴 (cmn), 铁锨 (cmn) (tiěxiān), 鍤 (cmn), 锸 (cmn) (chā)
- Chuvash: кĕреçе (kĕreśe)
- Crimean Tatar: kürek
- Czech: rýč (cs) m
- Danish: spade (da) c
- Dutch: schop f, spade f, schup f (Flemish), schep (nl) f
- Estonian: labidas (et)
- Faroese: spaki (fo) m, spaði (fo) m
- Finnish: lapio (fi)
- French: bêche (fr) f, pelle (fr) f
- Georgian: ბარი (ka) (bari)
- German: Spaten (de)
- Greek: φτυάρι (el) (ftyári) n
- Hebrew: את (he) (et)
- Hungarian: ásó (hu)
- Icelandic: skófla (is)
- Indonesian: sekop (id)
- Interlingua: pala
- Italian: pala (it), vanga (it) f
- Japanese: 鋤 (ja) (すき, suki), スペード (ja) (supēdo)
- Jèrriais: bêque f
- Karachay-Balkar: кюрек (kürek)
- Kazakh: күрек (kk) (kürek)
- Khakas: кÿрӌек (kürcek)
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- Korean: 가래 (ko) (garae)
- Kumyk: кюрек (kürek)
- Kurdish: merr (ku) f, mer (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: күрөк (ky) (kürök)
- Latin: rūtrum (la) n
- Latvian: lāpsta (lv) f
- Lithuanian: kastuvas (lt) m
- Macedonian: ашов (mk) (ášov) m
- Maltese: mgħażqa f
- Maori: kāheru (mi)
- Mongolian: хүрз (mn) (hürz)
- Norwegian: spade (no) m
- Persian: بیل (fa) (bil)
- Polish: szpadel (pl) m
- Portuguese: pá (pt) f
- Romanian: lopată (ro) f
- Russian: штыковая лопата (ru) (štykovája lopáta) f, лопата (ru) (lopáta) f, заступ (ru) (zástup) m
- Scottish Gaelic: spaid f
- Serbo-Croatian: лопата (sh) f, lopata (sh) f, ашов (sh) m, ašov (sh) m
- Shor: кÿрек (kürek), кÿрчек (kürçek)
- Slovak: rýľ (sk) m
- Slovene: lopata (sl) f
- Southern Altai: кӱрек (kürek)
- Spanish: pala (es) f, azada (es) f
- Swedish: spade (sv) c
- Tajik: бел (tg) (bel)
- Talysh:
- Asalemi: خلیک (xəlik)
- Tatar: көрәк (tt) (köräk)
- Turkish: kürek (tr), bel (tr)
- Turkmen: bel (tk)
- Ukrainian: лопата (uk) (lopáta) f
- Uzbek: kurak (uz), belkurak (uz), bel (uz)
- Vietnamese: xẻng (vi), xuồng (vi)
- Yakut: күрдьэх (kürcex)
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one of the black suits in a deck of cards
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Translations to be checked
- Mandarin: 鍬, 锹 (qiāo), 黑桃 (hēi táo)
- Interlingua: picca
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- Korean: 삽 (sap)
- Spanish: pala f
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Verb
spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)
- To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
- (videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.
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