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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 Ꟈ 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 d̅, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Symbol

(mathematics) the (path-independent, exact) differential of a quantity
(IPA) a voiced alveolar plosive.
(superscript ⟨ᵈ⟩) [d]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [d]-release, [d]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [d].
(financial mathematics) annual effective discount rate

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/
- Rhymes: -iː
(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

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

Abbreviations.

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

Abbreviation of died or death.
William Shakespeare, d 1616
(stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
exception: dz 'does'
(stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-

Adjective

(cricket) Abbreviation of declared.
Synonym: dec

Adverb

(crosswords) Abbreviation of down.
Do you have the answer for 23d?
(Malaysia)(informal) Abbreviation of already. Used to form the perfect tenses. Used in text messages.
Come d.

Done d.

Prefix

(stenoscript) the prefix dis- or des-

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/

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):

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/, [d̪e̞]

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

Etymology 2

From English differentiate or the differentiation symbol d.

Pronunciation

Verb

(Hong Kong Cantonese, mathematics) to differentiate

Related terms

in (in¹, “to integrate”)

Chipewyan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

d (upper case D)

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

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/, [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

Etymology 1

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and d for development of the glyph itself.

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.

Etymology 2

German musical notation.

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.

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

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.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

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

Italian

Letter

d f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case D)

The fourth letter of the Italian alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script.

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

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and d for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

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

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.

Mazahua

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɗ/

Letter

d (upper case D)

A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

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/
(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.

Nupe

Pronunciation

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

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

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

Polish

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and d for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d/, or IPA^(key): /t/ if devoiced

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 (uncountable)

Abbreviation of dom. (as a title)

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

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

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.

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and d for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

D (uppercase)

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.

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Gaj's Latin alphabet d, from Czech alphabet d, from Latin d, which is a modification of capital letter D, from Ancient Greek letter Δ (D, “Delta”). Pronunciation as IPA^(key): /də/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German d.

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/, [p]
(letter name): IPA^(key): /də́/, /dèː/, /déː/
Rhymes: -ə, -eː

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D)

The fifth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The seventh letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The fifth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Symbol

(SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [d].

Noun

d m inan

The name of the Latin script letter D / d.
(linguistics) The name of the phoneme /d/.

Inflection

Overall more common

More common when with a definite adjective

Etymology 2

From da with the same meaning, from Proto-Slavic *da, from Proto-Indo-European *doh₂, which is pronoun Proto-Indo-European *de-, Proto-Indo-European *do- 'this' in lative case. Simplification occurred due to modern vowel reduction as the final /a/ reduced to /ə/.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /də́/
Rhymes: -ə

Conjunction

(colloquial) that, so that, so

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (phoneme) /d/, [ð̞]
IPA^(key): (letter name) /ˈde/ [ˈd̪e]
- Rhymes: -e

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”).

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Spanish d. Each pronunciation has a different source:

Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English d.
Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish d.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜇ (da).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: d
(letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA^(key): /di/, [dɪ]
(letter name, Abecedario): IPA^(key): /de/, [dɛ]
(letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA^(key): /da/, [dɐ]
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/, [d]
Rhymes: -i, -e, -a

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)

The fourth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called di and written in the Latin script.
(historical) The fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called de and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Sometimes switched with the letter r between vowels due to lenition.
Often switched with the letter r on non-initial positions in early texts which may indicate ancient pronunciation of words.

Letter

d (lower case, upper case D, Baybayin spelling ᜇ)

The fourth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called da and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

From English d (dee), homophonous to di.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /diʔ/, [dɪʔ]

Adverb

d (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)

(text messaging, Internet slang) Alternative form of di

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

Adjective

Adverb

Prefix

Symbol

Albanian

Pronunciation

Letter

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Alemannic German

Article

Declension

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Chinese

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Related terms

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Chipewyan

Pronunciation

Letter

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Estonian

Pronunciation

Letter

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Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

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Fijian

Pronunciation

Letter

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

Usage notes

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