oud

• 'ud, oudh

From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute.

• IPA^(key): /uːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

oud (countable and uncountable, plural ouds)

2. (music) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.

   Coordinate term: sintir

   • 2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 22:

     Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle. The oud's origins are unknown, although myths attribute either celestial or magical beginnings, it more likely came from ancient Persia.

4. (perfumery) Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes.
   • 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233:

     The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated “beautiful” by my co-author. Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.

• oudist

• oud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 2010. Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn. Pg. 73.

• ODU, duo-, duo, udo, Duo

From Dutch oud, from Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”).

• IPA^(key): /œu̯t/

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oud (attributive ou, comparative ouer, superlative oudste)

1. old

• IPA^(key): [ˈou̯t]

oud m inan (diminutive oudek)

1. (archaic) alternative form of úd

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• “oud”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “oud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• (obsolete) oudt

From Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”).

Compare German alt, West Frisian âld, Low German old, English old.

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

oud (comparative ouder, superlative oudst)

1. old

   De oude man en de zee. ― The Old Man and the Sea.

2. stale (of bread)

Next to the regular form oude, the form ouwe is also used informally.

• ouwe

• Afrikaans: ou, oud
• Berbice Creole Dutch: hau
• Jersey Dutch: āud, āut
• Negerhollands: oud, ouw, houw, hou
• Skepi Creole Dutch: ou, oud
• West Flemish: elde

• duo

oud m (plural ouds)

1. alternative spelling of ud

• ud

Borrowed from French oud, or directly from Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of laúd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoud/ [ˈou̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -oud
• Syllabification: oud

oud m (plural oudes)

1. (music, historical) oud [from late-19th c.]

• “oud”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN