Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

شاد

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: شاذ

Arabic

More information Root ...

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

شَادَ (šāda) I (non-past يَشِيدُ (yašīdu), verbal noun شَيْد (šayd))

  1. (transitive) to build
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

شَادَّ (šādda) III (non-past يُشَادُّ (yušāddu), verbal noun مُشَادَّة (mušādda) or شِدَاد (šidād))

  1. to dispute (with), to argue (with), to altercate (with), to squabble (with)
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 3

Derived from the active participle of شَدَا (šadā, to sing).

Pronunciation

Adjective

شَادٍ (šādin) (informal شَادِي (šādī), feminine شَادِيَة (šādiya), masculine plural شَادُون (šādūn), feminine plural شَادِيَات (šādiyāt))

  1. singing, chanting, warbling
Declension
More information singular, masculine ...

Noun

شَادٍ (šādin) m (plural شَادُون (šādūn) or شُدَاة (šudāh))

  1. singer, chanter, songster, warbler
Declension
More information singular, singular triptote in ـٍ (-in) ...

References

Remove ads

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian شاد (šâd).

Adjective

شاد (şad)

  1. happy, glad

Descendants

  • Turkish: şad

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šʾt' /⁠šād⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏁𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎫 (š-i-y-a-t /⁠šiyāta-⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *šyaHtas (happy), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyaHtas, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁-to-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (peace, rest).

Pronunciation

 

More information Readings, Classical reading? ...

Adjective

More information Dari, Iranian Persian ...

شاد (šâd) (comparative شادتَر, superlative شادتَرین)

  1. glad, happy, cheerful
    Synonym: خوشحال (xošhâl)
    شاد و پیروز باشید.šâd o piruz bâšid.Be happy and successful.
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Manūchihr”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]:
      یکایک به شاه آمد این آگهی
      که سام آمد از کوه با فرّهی
      بدان آگهی شد منوچهر شاد
      بسی از جهان آفرین کرد یاد
      yakāyak ba šāh āmad īn āgahī
      ki sām āmad az kōh bā farrahī
      bad-ān āgahī šud manūchihr šād
      basē az jahān āfarīn kard yād
      All at once, the news came to the king
      That Sām had come down from the mountain in glory.
      Manūchihr was gladdened by this news;
      Oft did he remember the World-Creator.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 138”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:
      یاد باد آن که ز ما وقت سفر یاد نکرد
      به وداعی دل غمدیدهٔ ما شاد نکرد
      yād bād ān ki zi mā waqt-i safar yād na-kard
      ba wadā'ē dil-i ġamdīda-yi mā šād na-kard
      Blessed by the memory of she who did not tell me when she would leave,
      Who did not make my grief-stricken heart happy with even a single farewell.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

compound verbs
  • شاد شدن (šâd šodan, to become happy)
  • شاد کردن (šâd kardan, to make happy)
other
  • دلشاد (delšâd, happy, merry, glad)
  • شاباش (šâbâš, bravo)
  • شاد باد (šâd bâd, may... prosper)
  • شاداب (šâdâb, juicy; succulent)
  • شادبهر (šâdbahr, joyful, merry)
  • شادخواب (šâdxâb, sound sleep)
  • شادخوار (šâdxâr, merry, happy; wine-bibber)
  • شاددل (šâddel, blithe, merry)
  • شادروان (šâdravân, the late, deceased)
  • شادمان (šâdmân, happy)
  • شادمهر (šâdmehr)
  • شادکام (šâdkâm, happy, merry)
  • شادی (šâdi, joy; happiness)

Descendants

Remove ads

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاد (šād).

Pronunciation

Adjective

شاد (śād) (Hindi spelling शाद)

  1. happy, glad, cheerful, joyful

Further reading

  • شاد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads