nod

See also: NOD, Nod, nód, nöd, nőd, nød, -nod, and -nöd

Translingual

Symbol

nod

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Northern Thai.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Northern Thai terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /nɒd/ /nɒːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɑd/
• (General Australian, Estuary English, Wales) IPA^(key): /nɔd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒd, -ɑd, -ɔd
• Homophone: gnawed (cot–caught merger)

Verb

nod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.
   • 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     By every wind that nods the mountain pine.

   • 1819, William Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm:

     Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.

4. (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
5. (transitive) To signify by a nod.

   They nodded their assent.

6. (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired

   Even Homer nods.

7. (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.

   Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.

   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.

8. (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
   • March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]

     Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.

9. (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

Coordinate terms

• (incline the head): wag, yes

Derived terms

• nid-nod
• nodding blue lily
• nodding disease, nodding syndrome
• nodding donkey
• nodding thistle
• nodding trillium
• nodding wakerobin
• nod in
• nod off
• nod out
• nod through
• on nodding terms

 

Translations

incline the head up and down

• Arabic: هَزَّ رَأْسَهُ (hazza raʔsahu) (also means "to shake one's head"), أَوْمَأَ (ar) (ʔawmaʔa), أَوْمَأَ بِرَأْسِهِ (ʔawmaʔa biraʔsihi)
• Belarusian: ківа́ць impf (kivácʹ), кіўну́ць pf (kiŭnúcʹ)
• Bulgarian: кимам (bg) impf (kimam)
• Burmese: ညိတ် (nyit)
• Catalan: fer que sí amb el cap, assentir amb el cap, capejar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏍᎫᏍᎦ (alisgusga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 點頭／点头 (zh) (diǎntóu)

• Czech: kývat impf, přikývnout (cs) pf
• Danish: nikke
• Dutch: knikken (nl)
• Esperanto: kapjesi (eo)
• Finnish: nyökätä (fi), nyökäyttää, nyökyttää (fi)
• French: dodeliner (fr), hocher (fr)
• German: nicken (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: νεύω (neúō)

• Hebrew: הרכין (he)
• Hungarian: bólint (hu), biccent (hu), igenel (hu)
• Icelandic: að kinka kolli
• Indonesian: mengangguk (id)
• Italian: annuire (it), accennare (it), scuotere (it)
• Japanese: 頷く (ja) (うなずく, unazuku)
• Korean: 끄덕이다 (ko) (kkeudeogida)
• Latin: nūtō, adnuō (la)
• Macedonian: кли́ма impf (klíma), кли́мне pf (klímne), ки́ма impf (kíma), ки́мне pf (kímne)
• Maori: tungou, tūngoungou (refers to repeated action)
• Mokilese: mwasoa
• Norwegian: nikke (no)
• Polish: kiwać (pl) impf, kiwnąć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: assentir (pt), acenar (pt)
• Romanian: da din cap
• Russian: кива́ть (ru) impf (kivátʹ), кивну́ть (ru) pf (kivnútʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: crom
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: климати impf, климнути pf

  Roman: klimati (sh) impf, klimnuti (sh) pf

• Slovak: kývať impf, prikývnuť pf
• Slovene: kimati (sl) impf
• Spanish: asentir (es) con la cabeza, cabecear (es), veniar, aveniar, enveniar
• Swedish: nicka (sv)
• Thai: ผงก (th) (pà-ngòk), พยัก (th) (pá-yák)
• Turkish: kafa sallamak
• Ukrainian: кива́ти impf (kyváty), кивну́ти pf (kyvnúty)
• Vietnamese: gật đầu (vi), gật (vi)

gradually fall asleep

• Bulgarian: климам (klimam), задрямвам (bg) (zadrjamvam)
• Burmese: ငိုက် (my) (nguik)
• Catalan: capcinejar (ca), pesar figues (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打盹 (zh) (dǎdǔn)

• Czech: klímat
• Dutch: knikkebollen (nl)
• Esperanto: ekdormadi, dormeti, ekdormeti
• Finnish: nuokkua (fi)
• French: dodeliner (fr), somnoler (fr), piquer du nez (fr)
• German: einnicken (de)
• Hungarian: bóbiskol (hu)
• Icelandic: að sofna
• Italian: addormentarsi (it), appisolarsi (it), cadere in catalessi
• Macedonian: задремува (zadremuva), дреме (dreme)
• Maori: kānewha
• Portuguese: cabecear (pt)
• Romanian: dormita (ro)
• Russian: клева́ть но́сом (ru) impf (klevátʹ nósom), задрема́ть (ru) pf (zadremátʹ), дрема́ть (ru) impf (dremátʹ) (to doze)
• Spanish: cabecear (es)
• Swedish: nicka till
• Thai: งุบ (ngúp), สัปหงก (th), โงก (ngôok)

Noun

nod (plural nods)

1. An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
2. A reference or allusion to something.
   • 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]:

     Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937.

3. A nomination.

   For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.

4. (figurative) Approval.

   The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.

   • 1964 August, “News and Comment: One main line to Scotland?”, in Modern Railways, page 86:

     Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow?

5. A state of half-consciousness; stupor.
   • 1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7:

     Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.

Derived terms

• a nod is as good as a wink
• a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
• continuity nod
• get the nod
• nigga nod
• nod-back
• on the nod

 

Translations

instance of moving one's head

• Arabic: إِيمَاءَة f (ʔīmāʔa), هَزَّة f (hazza)
• Bulgarian: кимане n (kimane)
• Catalan: capejada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 點頭／点头 (zh) (diǎntóu)

• Dutch: knik (nl)
• Esperanto: kapjeso
• Finnish: nyökkäys
• French: signe de la tête m, hochement (fr) m
• German: Kopfnicken (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: νεῦμα n (neûma)

• Hungarian: biccentés (hu), bólintás (hu), bólintani
• Indonesian: anggukan (id)
• Italian: cenno (it) m
• Latin: nūtus m
• Macedonian: климање n (klimanje)
• Maori: tungou
• Norwegian: nikk n
• Portuguese: aceno (pt) m
• Russian: киво́к (ru) m (kivók)
• Scottish Gaelic: gnogadh cinn m
• Spanish: cabezada (es) f, venia (es) f
• Swedish: nick (sv) c

Anagrams

• DON, Don, Don., ODN, don, don'

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• nodu

Etymology 1

From Latin nōdus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.

Noun

nod

1. knot

Etymology 2

From Latin nōdō. Compare Daco-Romanian înnoda, înnod (archaic noda).

Alternative forms

• nodu, anod, anodu

Verb

nod first-singular present indicative (past participle nudatã)

1. to knot, tie a knot

Related terms

• nudari / nudare
• nudat

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish not, from Latin nota. Doublet of nóta.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠɔd̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠʌd̪ˠ/

Noun

nod m (genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)

1. scribal contraction, abbreviation
2. hint (clue; tacit suggestion)

Declension

Declension of nod

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative nod noda Vocative a noid a noda Genitive noid nod Dative nod noda

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an nod na noda Genitive an noid na nod Dative leis an nod don nod leis na noda

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nod”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “not, nod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Northern Kurdish

Numeral

nod

1. ninety

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nod n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural nod, definite plural noda)

1. a bent spike on a nail (or similar) which is hammered through a medium (e.g. a piece of wood)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *naudi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔːd/

Noun

nōd f

1. a need
2. a necessity for something

Descendants

• Middle Low German: nōt
  • Westphalian:

    Sauerländisch: nôd

    Westmünsterländisch: Nood

  • Plautdietsch: Noot

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nōdus, from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nod/

• Audio:

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Noun

nod n (plural noduri)

1. knot

Declension

Declension of nod

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) nod	nodul	(niște) noduri	nodurile
genitive/dative	(unui) nod	nodului	(unor) noduri	nodurilor
vocative	nodule		nodurilor

Related terms

• înnoda
• noadă
• nodei
• nodos
• noduros

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh not, from Proto-Brythonic *nod, from Latin nota. Cognate with Cornish nos, Old Breton not, Old Irish not, Irish nod.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau, diminutive nodyn, not mutable)

1. mark, brand
2. aim, objective, goal

Derived terms

• atalnod
• collnod
• cysylltnod
• dyfynnod
• ebychnod
• gofynnod
• hirnod
• hynod
• meincnod
• nod llyfr
• nod masnach
• nodi
• nodyn
• taro'r nod (“to hit the mark”)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English node, from Latin nōdus.

Noun

nod m (plural nodau or nodion, not mutable)

1. (botany) leaf node
2. (medicine) node

   Synonym: oddf

3. (geometry, graph theory) node
4. (physics) node
5. (astronomy) node

   Synonyms: cwlwm, trawsglwm, oddf

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nod

1. Nasal mutation of dod.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dod	ddod	nod	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.