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):

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• 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

• ODU, duo-, duo, udo, Duo

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:

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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 (in Czech)
• “oud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) oudt

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)

Declension

Declension 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
• oud papier
• 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