Jade
See also: jade, jáde, jäde, and jadę
English
Etymology
From the precious stone jade; taken into general use in the 1970s.
Proper noun
Jade
- A female given name from English.
- 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 102:
- Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —
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Descendants
- Cebuano: Jade
- Mandarin: 杰德 (jie de)
- Japanese: ジェイド (jeido)
Translations
female given name
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Cebuano
Etymology
From English Jade, from English jade. As a male given name, often, from confusion or misptonunciation of Jed.
Proper noun
Jade
- a female given name from English
- a male given name
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jade.
Finnish
Etymology
From jade (“jade”), in imitation of English usage. First recorded as a Finnish given name in the 1970s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɑde/, [ˈjɑde̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑde
- Syllabification(key): Ja‧de
Proper noun
Jade
- a female given name
- 2016, Niina Hakalahti, Lumilinna, Karisto, →ISBN, pages 84, 122:
- - Kyllä mä tiedän, että Jade ja Jeri on kamalat nimet. Eikä Emma ole yksinhuoltajana aina jaksanut olla ihan niin looginen kuin olisi pitänyt.
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-- No just niillä sen ennustuksilla. Mutta mä en nyt halua puhua niistä sen enempää. Jadesta tulee varmaan samanlainen, sillä on jo nyt tapana katsoa toisen läpi, huomasitko silloin Kemissä?
Sami ei ollut kiinnittanyt huomiota kumpaankaan lapseen erityisesti, muutoin kuin vain huonon käytöksen osalta.
- Jadehan on hyvä nimi ennustajalle.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Declension
| Inflection of Jade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Jade | Jadet | |
| genitive | Jaden | Jadejen | |
| partitive | Jadea | Jadeja | |
| illative | Jadeen | Jadeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Jade | Jadet | |
| accusative | nom. | Jade | Jadet |
| gen. | Jaden | ||
| genitive | Jaden | Jadejen Jadeinrare | |
| partitive | Jadea | Jadeja | |
| inessive | Jadessa | Jadeissa | |
| elative | Jadesta | Jadeista | |
| illative | Jadeen | Jadeihin | |
| adessive | Jadella | Jadeilla | |
| ablative | Jadelta | Jadeilta | |
| allative | Jadelle | Jadeille | |
| essive | Jadena | Jadeina | |
| translative | Jadeksi | Jadeiksi | |
| instructive | — | Jadein | |
| abessive | Jadetta | Jadeitta | |
| comitative | — | Jadeineen | |
| Possessive forms of Jade (type nalle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Jadeni | Jademme |
| 2nd person | Jadesi | Jadenne |
| 3rd person | Jadensa | |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒad/
Proper noun
Jade f
- a female given name from the noun jade, popular in the 2000s
Anagrams
- déjà
German
Etymology
From French jade (“jade”), rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (“flank”) (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjaːdə/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːdə
- Hyphenation: Ja‧de
Noun
Jade m or f (mixed, genitive Jades or Jade, plural Jaden)
- (uncountable) jade (gem)
- (countable) an artifact made of jade
Declension
Declension of Jade [masculine // feminine, mixed]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein, eine | der, die | Jade | die | Jaden |
| genitive | eines, einer | des, der | Jades, Jade | der | Jaden |
| dative | einem, einer | dem, der | Jade | den | Jaden |
| accusative | einen, eine | den, die | Jade | die | Jaden |
Synonyms
- (gem): Jadeit, Nephrit, Chloromelanit
- (jade artifact): Jadeobjekt
Derived terms
- jadegrün
- Jadeit
- Jadekaiser
- jaden
- Jadeobjekt
References
- “Jade, Stein, Schmuck” in Duden online
- “Jade, Fluss” in Duden online
- “Jade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache