dee

See also: Dee, dée, dèe, dêe, and -dę́ę́ʼ

dee - English

Alternative forms

  • de (Northumbria)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdiː/

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)

  1. (Northumbria) To do.
    • What are ye deein man!

Noun

dee (plural dees)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.
  2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
    • the pommel is furnished with dees.
  3. (colloquial) Police detective.
    • the dees are about.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic: دِي m ()
  • Burmese: ဒီ (my) (di)
  • Catalan: de (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    • Cantonese: dog (dok1) (Hong Kong Cantonese)
    • Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)
  • Esperanto: do (eo)
  • Finnish: dee (fi)
  • French:  (fr) m
  • Galician: de (gl) m
  • Greek: ντι n (di)
  • Hawaiian:
  • Hindi: डी (ḍī)
  • Icelandic:
  • Ido: de (io)
  • Irish:  (ga), dair f
  • Japanese: ディー ()
  • Korean:  (ko) (di)
  • Latin:  (la)
  • Malay: di (ms)
  • Marathi: डी (ḍī)
  • Occitan: de (oc) f
  • Persian: د (fa) (de), دی (fa) (di) (english)
  • Portuguese:  (pt) m
  • Russian: ди (ru) n (di) (English), дэ (ru) n ()
  • Spanish: de (es) f
  • Thai: ดี (th) (dii)
  • Turkish: de (tr)
  • Vietnamese:  (vi), dờ
  • Welsh: di f

Anagrams

dee - Aiwoo

Adverb

dee

  1. (interrogative) when

dee - Bambara

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [dẽ˦ẽ˨]

Noun

dee

  1. child

dee - Chairel

Noun

dee

  1. water

dee - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): di4, di4-2

Noun

dee

  1. (Cantonese, often in compounds) brother
    • 華dee华dee [Cantonese]   waa4 di4-2 [Jyutping]   a nickname, Brother Wah
  2. (Cantonese, poker, especially in big two) the largest of the poker cards, i.e. 2 (Classifier: )
  3. (Cantonese, in compounds) big two
    • dee [Cantonese]   di4-2 wong4 zi1 wong4 [Jyutping]   king of big two

Derived terms

  • 鋤dee锄dee

dee - Dutch Low Saxon

Pronoun

dee

  1. (relative) who, which, that

dee - East Central German

Alternative forms

Adverb

dee

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) (in a question, modal particle) then, ever, but, now (used for emphasis or to express interest, surprise or doubt, or in rhetorical questions)

dee - Estonian

Noun

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

dee - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdeː/, [ˈde̞ː]
  • Syllabification: dee

Noun

dee

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

Declension

Inflection of dee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative dee deet
genitive deen deiden deitten
partitive deetä deitä
illative deehen deihin
Possessive forms of dee (type maa)

dee - Gokana

Noun

dee

  1. day

dee - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdɛ.e/, (traditional) */ˈdɛ.e/
  • Hyphenation: dè‧e

Noun

dee f

  1. plural of dea

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdɛ.e/, /ˈde.e/
  • Hyphenation: dè‧e, dé‧e

Verb

dee

  1. (archaic, poetic or popular Tuscan) Alternative form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

dee - Latin

Noun

dee

  1. vocative singular of deus

dee - Lombard

Pronunciation

  • (Western, Milanese) IPA: /deː/
  • Hyphenation: dee

Noun

dee m (feminine deja, masculine plural dee, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)

  1. god, deity

dee - Low German

Verb

dee

  1. first-person singular past of doon

dee - Maquiritari

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [deː]

Noun

dee (De'kwana dialect)

  1. wood, stick of wood
  2. tree

dee - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /deː/, /diː/, /dɛi̯/

Noun

dee (plural dees)

  1. A die or dice (cube used in games and gambling)
  2. A game which utilises or employs dice.
  3. (rare) A piece or cube of diced food.
  4. (rare) Something of little value.

Descendants

dee - Scots

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

  1. to die

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

  1. Doric form of dae (to do)
    • Fit ye deein?
      • What are you doing?

dee - Teop

Verb

dee

  1. to carry

dee - Võro

Noun

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

dee - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /d̪eː/

Verb

dee

  1. (intransitive) to arrive
    • dee peto arrive at
  2. (intransitive) to reach
  3. (intransitive) to be enough, sufficient
    • idee yoit is not enough (literally, “it does not reach”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dee (action verb)

dee - Yola

Verb

dee (simple past deeth)

  1. to die
Meaning and Definition of dee
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