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d

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English Online Dictionary. What means d‎? What does d mean?

Translingual

Etymology 1

Modification of capital letter D, from Ancient Greek letter Δ (D, “Delta”).

Letter

d (upper case D)

The fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Usage notes

The letter d is used in the alphabets of many languages, and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the voiced alveolar or dental plosive (/d/). In some languages and transcription systems, d may also represent other sounds, such as /t/ or /ð/.

Etymology 2

Lower case form of upper case roman numeral D, a standardization of D or Ð, from tally stick markings resembling a superimposed Ɔ and ⋌, from the practice of encircling each hundredth ⋌ notch.

Alternative forms

D, Ⅾ, ⅾ

Numeral

d (lower case Roman numeral, upper case D)

cardinal number five hundred (500).

Usage notes

With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as d, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Symbol

(mathematics) the (path-independent, exact) differential of a quantity
(IPA) voiced alveolar plosive

Gallery

Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /diː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D, plural ds or d's)

The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

d-hole

Number

d (lower case, upper case D)

The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

(died, death): abbreviation
(British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
(dice): abbreviation of dice

Verb

Abbreviation of died (or death)
William Shakespeare, d 1616

Adjective

(cricket) Abbreviation of declared.
Synonym: dec

Adverb

(crosswords) Abbreviation of down.
Do you have the answer for 23d?

Symbol

(until February 1971) a British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).
£sd — “pounds, shillings and pence”
(dice games) Die or dice
d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides

2d6 — the sum of the roll of two six-sided dice
penny, a measure of the size of nails

Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d(ə)/

Letter

d (d) (upper case D, lower case d)

The 5th letter of the Standard Albanian Latin-script alphabet.
The 7th letter of the Arvanitic Albanian Greek-script alphabet.

Alemannic German

Article

d f

(definite) the
- 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
  Di nöchscht rächts. Mir fared i d’Fäldschtrass.
  The next right. We'll drive down Feldstrasse.

d pl

(definite) the

Declension

Masculine nominative/accusative singular de has the form der before a vowel, e.g. der alt Maa ‘the old man’
Dative plural de has the form den before a vowel, e.g. den alte Fraue ‘(to) the old women’
Feminine singular d and plural d have the variant di before an adjective, e.g. di jung Mueter ‘the young mother’

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d lower case (upper case D)

The fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Basque alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

Chinese

Etymology 1

From 啲.

Pronunciation

Noun

(Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of 啲

Suffix

(Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of 啲

Etymology 2

Borrowed from the first letter of the English differentiate.

Pronunciation

Verb

(Cantonese, mathematics, nonstandard) to differentiate

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eː
(letter name): IPA^(key): /deː/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /do/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/
Homophone (letter name): do (“so, therefore”)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fifth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called do and written in the Latin script.

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈd̥eː/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

d (upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Fijian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ⁿd/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Fijian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdeː/, [ˈde̞ː] (name of letter)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used only in loanwords except for the weak grade of t.

Noun

(music) D (note)

Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
- [S]carce had the little birds shaded of a thousand colours hailed from the harps of their tongues, in a soft and mellifluous harmony, the coming of the pink-tinted dawn, ... when the famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha ... took his route across the ancient and famous Campo de Montiel.

Fula

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌳

Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈd]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈdeː]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The sixth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called dé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Derived terms

d-moll

Icelandic

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /tjɛː/

Letter

d (upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ido

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d/
(letter name) IPA^(key): /de/

Letter

d (upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Noun

d m or f (invariable)

See under D

Kabyle

Etymology

From Proto-Berber *d. Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⴷ (d).

Particle

(copula) to be

Particle

proximal particle; suffixed onto verbs to indicate a direction towards an inferred reference point

Conjunction

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [d]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The sixth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called dē and written in the Latin script.

Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d̪/

Letter

d (upper case D)

The sixth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Lushootseed

Letter

The ninth letter of the Lushootseed alphabet, pronounced as a voiced alveolar stop.

Malay

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d/
IPA^(key): /t/ (per final devoicing or assimilation to a following voiceless obstruent)

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /deː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/, (in rd) /ɖ/

Letter

The fourth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /deː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/, (in rd) /ɖ/
Homophone: det

Letter

d (upper case D, definite singular d-en, indefinite plural d-er, definite plural d-ene)

The fourth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /deː/ (example of pronunciation)
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/, (in rd) /ɖ/
Homophones: de, det

Letter

d (upper case D, definite singular d-en, indefinite plural d-ar, definite plural d-ane)

The fourth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

(det): abbreviation
(død): abbreviation

Pronoun

Abbreviation of det.

Article

Abbreviation of det.

Adjective

Abbreviation of død.

References

“d” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɛ/

Letter

d (upper case D, lower case)

The sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

d m

Abbreviation of dom. (as a title)

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The sixth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called de or dî and written in the Latin script.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(uppercase): D

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (Cyrillic spelling д)

The 6th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by ć and followed by dž.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (upper case D)

The eighth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Spanish

Pronunciation

(Phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/, [ð̞]

(Letter) IPA^(key): /de/, [d̪e]

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Swedish

Pronoun

(Internet slang, text messaging) Pronunciation spelling of det (“it”).

Article

(Internet slang, text messaging) Pronunciation spelling of det (“it”).

Turkish

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fifth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(phoneme): (north) IPA^(key): /z/, (south) IPA^(key): /j/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The sixth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Welsh

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /diː/
- (informal) IPA^(key): /də/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by ch and followed by dd.

Mutation

d at the beginning of words mutates to dd in a soft mutation, to n in a nasal mutation and is unchanged by aspirate mutation, for example with the word draig (“dragon”):

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /dí/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The third letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called dí and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Translingual

Etymology 1

Letter

Usage notes

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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Numeral

Usage notes

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Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Symbol

Gallery

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

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Derived terms

Number

Etymology 2

Verb

Adjective

Adverb

Symbol

Albanian

Pronunciation

Letter

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Alemannic German

Article

Declension

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

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Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Suffix

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

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Estonian

Pronunciation

Letter

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Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

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Fijian

Pronunciation

Letter

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Finnish

Pronunciation

Letter

Usage notes

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Noun

Usage notes

Declension