ولد

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

• IPA^(key): /wɪld/

ولد (weld) m (plural ولاد (wulād))

1. son
2. boy
3. child

From Proto-Semitic *walad-.

• IPA^(key): /wa.la.da/

وَلَدَ • (walada) I (non-past يَلِدُ (yalidu), verbal noun وِلَادَة (wilāda) or لِدَة (lida) or مَوْلِد (mawlid))

1. to bear, to beget

   وُلِدْتُ فِي مَدِينَةٍ كَبِيرَةٍ.

   wulidtu fī madīnatin kabīratin.

   I was born in a big city.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 112:3:

     لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ

     lam yalid wa-lam yūlad

     He neither begets nor is born,

2. to produce, to bring forth

Form-II intensive/causative of وَلَدَ (walada, “to give birth”).

• IPA^(key): /wal.la.da/

وَلَّدَ • (wallada) II (non-past يُوَلِّدُ (yuwallidu), verbal noun تَوْلِيد (tawlīd))

1. to assist in childbirth (as a midwife)
2. to make children to, to cause to give birth
3. to rear, to educate, to bring up
4. to innovate, to originate, to generate, to produce

   وَجَمَالُ ٱلْأَشْخَاصِ هُوَ أَمْرٌ يُؤَثِّرُ بِٱلْمَشَاعِرِ وَيُوَلِّدُ ٱلْإنْجِذَابَ نَحْوَ الْآخَرِينَ.

   wa-jamālu l-ʔašḵāṣi huwa ʔamrun yuʔaṯṯiru bi-l-mašāʕiri wa-yuwallidu l-ʔinjiḏāba naḥwa l-ʔāḵarīna.

   The beauty of people is something that affects feelings and generates attraction towards others.

5. to give birth
6. to derive (a word)

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “ولد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ولد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

Compare Hebrew יֶלֶד (yéled), Ge'ez ወልድ (wäld).

• IPA^(key): /wa.lad/

وَلَد • (walad) m (plural أَوْلَاد (ʔawlād) or وُلْد (wuld) or وِلْدَان (wildān) or وِلْدَة (wilda))

1. child (“son or daughter of any age”)

   أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَلْعَبَ مَعَ أَوْلَادِكَ.

   ʔurīdu ʔan ʔalʕaba maʕa ʔawlādika.

   I want to play with your children.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:31:

     وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًا

     walā taqtulū ʔawlādakum ḵašyata ʔimlāqin naḥnu narzuquhum wa-ʔiyyākum ʔinna qatlahum kāna ḵiṭʔan kabīran

     And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is ever a great sin.

2. (collective) offspring, issue
3. (colloquial) boy
4. (colloquial) son

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ولد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic وَلِدَ (walida).

ولد • (wilid) I (non-past يلد (yalda))

1. to give birth

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[2] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 153

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

• IPA^(key): /wa.lad/

ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (wilād))

1. boy

   Alternative forms: واد (wād), ولا (wala)

From Arabic وَلَدَ (walada).

• IPA^(key): /wa.lad/, /wi.lid/

ولد • (walad, wilid) (verbal noun ولادة (wilāda), active participle والد (wālid), passive participle مولود (mawlūd))

1. to give birth, to bear

Standard Arabic وَلَد (walad, “son of”)^[1]

• IPA^(key): [wulː]

ولد (wull)

1. son (of)

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

• IPA^(key): /wuld/, /wald/

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ولد • (wuld, wald) m (plural ولاد (wlād))

1. boy

   Synonyms: طفل (tafl), عايل (ʕāyil)

2. son

   Synonym: بن (ben)

3. (in the plural) children

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (ulād) or صِبيان (ṣibyān) or صُبيان (ṣubyān))

1. boy

• The plural ولاد (ulād) can mean “boys” specifically, but also “children” in general. The alternative plural is used to explicitly specify the masculine.

• ابن (ibin)
• بنت (bint)
• شب (šabb)
• صبية (ṣabiyye)
• طفل (ṭifil, ṭufil)

• վէլէտ (veled) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic وَلَد (walad). The adjective is from a clipping of ولد زنا (veledi zina, “bastard”).

ولد • (veled) (broken plural اولاد or ولده)

1. child

   Synonym: اوغل (oğul)

2. child (of animals), cub, pup
3. children, offspring, progeny

   Synonym: اولاد (evlâd)

• Turkish: velet

ولد • (veled)

1. mischievous, crafty
2. impudent, audacious

• → Albanian: velet
• → Armenian: վէլէտ (vēlēt)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ولد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2148f.
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ولد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1315b

From Arabic وَلِدَ (walida).

• IPA^(key): /wi.lid/, [ˈwi.lɪd]

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ولد • (wilid) I (present بولد (būlad))

1. to give birth

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

• IPA^(key): /wa.lad/, [ˈwa.lad]

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ولد • (walad) m (plural ولاد (ulād) or أولاد (ʔawlād))

1. boy, kid, child

   هاد ولد جديد بصفّي. ― hād walad jdīd bi-ṣaffi ― This is a new kid in my class.

2. son

   Synonym: ابن (ibn)

• طفل (ṭifl, “young child, toddler”)
• صبي (ṣabi, “boy, young man”)

Borrowed from Arabic وَلَد (walad).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋə.ləd̪/

وَلَد • (valad) m (Hindi spelling वलद)

1. son

   Synonyms: بیٹا (beṭā), فرزند (farzand)

2. offspring

   Synonym: اولاد (olād)

3. boy

   Synonym: لڑکا (laṛkā)

• “ولد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ولد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.