had

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

Translingual

Symbol

had

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Hatam.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hatam terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ġehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habdaz, past and past participle stem of *habjaną (“to have”), equivalent to have +‎ -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.

Pronunciation

• (stressed) IPA^(key): /hæd/
• (had to): IPA^(key): /hæt/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /həd/, /əd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Verb

had

1. simple past and past participle of have
2. (auxiliary, followed by a past participle) Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
3. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.

Usage notes

Had, like that, is one of a small number of words to be correctly used twice in succession in English in a non-contrived way, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”

Derived terms

Anagrams

• DHA, dah, dha, HDA, AHD, ADH

Afrikaans

Verb

had

1. preterite of hê; had

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *had, from Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh₁-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Noun

had m (plural hadoù)

1. (botany) seed

Central Cagayan Agta

Pronoun

had

1. (interrogative) where

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech had, from Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦat]
• Hyphenation: had
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

had m anim (relational adjective hadí)

1. snake

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “had”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “had”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “had”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“hate”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad

Noun

had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)

1. hate, hatred

Derived terms

Verb

had

1. imperative of hade

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑt
• IPA^(key): /ɦɑt/

Verb

had

1. singular past indicative of hebben

Hungarian

Etymology

From Old Hungarian hodu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta. Cognate with Finnish kunta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒd]
• Rhymes: -ɒd

Noun

had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army
2. (military, in compound words or phrases) war

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• had in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay had, from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhat/ [ˈhat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

had (plural had-had)

1. (rare) Synonym of batas (“limit; boundary”)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “had” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Jersey Dutch

Alternative forms

• hād
• hāt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hat/

Verb

had

1. singular past indicative of hävve; had.

Malay

Etymology

From Classical Malay [script needed] (had), from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /had/

Noun

had (Jawi spelling حد, plural had-had)

1. limit
   1. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).

      Synonym: limit (Indonesian)

2. boundary

Synonyms

• batas

Derived terms

• berhad

Descendants

• Indonesian: had

Further reading

• “had” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Matal

Verb

had

1. to walk, go

References

Middle English

Noun

had

1. Alternative form of hod

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈɣad/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈɦat/

Noun

had m animal

1. snake

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: had

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “had”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr (“dignity, honor”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɑːd/, [hɑːd]

Noun

hād m

1. person, individual
2. a character
3. individuality
4. rank, status
   • 9th century, the Blickling Homilies, "The Third Sunday in Lent"

5. a person of the Trinity
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"

6. honor, dignity
7. office (esp religious)
8. state, condition; nature, manner
9. sex, gender
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of the Holy Virgins"

10. (grammar) grammatical person
    • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

11. race; kindred, family; tribe, group
12. choir

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

• forma hād
• ōþer hād
• þridda hād

Related terms

• -hād

Descendants

• Middle English: hod, had, hade, hede, hode
  • English: hade, hede (obsolete)
  • Scots: hade (obsolete)

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gadъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɦat]

Noun

had m animal (female equivalent (rare, colloquial) hadica, relational adjective hadí, diminutive hadík or hádik, augmentative hadisko)

1. snake, serpent

Declension

Further reading

• “had”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Sumerian

Romanization

had

1. Romanization of 𒉺 (ḫad)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حد (hadd), from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hadʲ/, [hɐdʲ]

Noun

had (definite accusative haddi, plural hadler or hudut)

1. limit
2. boundary

Declension

Related terms

• hiddet
• mahdut
• tahdit

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gàdъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: had
• Syllabification: had

Noun

had m animal (diminutive hadźik)

1. (zoology) snake, serpent

Declension

References

• “had” in Soblex

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd, “limit”). Compare Turkish had.

Noun

had (plural hadlar)

1. limit

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh hat, from Proto-Brythonic *had, from Proto-Celtic *satos, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₁-tó-, past participle of *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haːd/
• Rhymes: -aːd

Noun

had m pl or m sg (singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

1. seed, seeds (collectively)
2. semen, sperm

   Synonyms: semen, sberm

Derived terms

• had bwrw (“semen”)
• hadblanhigyn (“seedling”)
• hadog (“seeded”)
• hadwellt (“dropseed”)
• llinad (“linseed”)

Related terms

• hadu (“to sow”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “had”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Verb

had

1. Alternative form of hadh (“had”)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867