vada
See also: váda, vadā, vadă, vådă, vāda, vaða, and вада
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɑːdə/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).
Noun
vada (plural vadas)
- A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
- 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 204:
- I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.
- 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 204:
Translations
Asian doughnut
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)[1]
Alternative forms
- varder
Verb
vada (third-person singular simple present vadas, present participle vadaing, simple past and past participle vada'd)
- (Polari) To look (at), to see
- 1851, Mayhew, Henry, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:
- […] "The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession[sic] generally use. […]
"'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window. […] "
- 1967, Barry Took and Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):
- You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.
- 2015 October 12, Lowe, Adam, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
- Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vada.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:look
References
- Alan D. Corré (2005), “Polari Words from Lingua Franca”, in A Glossary of Lingua Franca, 5th Edition edition
See also
- vada pav
Anagrams
- Dava
Aragonese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
vada f (plural vadas)
- strike (work stoppage)
Derived terms
- vada cheneral
Czech
Etymology
Deverbal from vadit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvada]
Noun
vada f
- defect
- vada řeči ― speech impediment
- vrozenávada ― birth defect
Declension
Declension of vada
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vada | vady |
| genitive | vady | vad |
| dative | vadě | vadám |
| accusative | vadu | vady |
| vocative | vado | vady |
| locative | vadě | vadách |
| instrumental | vadou | vadami |
Related terms
- vadný
- závada
See also
- kaz
- nedostatek
- defekt
Further reading
- vada in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- vada in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- vada in Internetová jazyková příručka
French
Verb
vada
- third-person singular past historic of vader
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈva.da/
- Rhymes: -ada
- Hyphenation: và‧da
Verb
vada
- inflection of andare:
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- dava
Latin
Verb
vadā
- second-person singular present active imperative of vadō
Noun
vada
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vadum
References
- vada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “vada”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Latvian
Noun
vada m
- genitive singular form of vads
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- va
- vade (e-infinitive)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaː(d)a/, /vada/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną.
Verb
vada (present tense vader, past tense vadde, past participle vadd/vadt, passive infinitive vadast, present participle vadande, imperative vad)
- (intransitive) to wade
- (intransitive, chiefly about fish) swim at the surface
Usage notes
- Prior to 1938, vada was considered a class 6 strong verb – at which point it was superseeded by a weak inflection short form va. Was reintroduced to the official spelling by the 1959 spelling reform.
- This is a split infinitive verb.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
vada n
- definite plural of vad
- definite plural of vad
References
- “vada” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “vada”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
Anagrams
- dava
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀯𑀤 (Brahmi script)
- वद (Devanagari script)
- ৰদ (Bengali script)
- වද (Sinhalese script)
- ဝဒ or ဝၻ (Burmese script)
- วท or วะทะ (Thai script)
- ᩅᨴ (Tai Tham script)
- ວທ or ວະທະ (Lao script)
- វទ (Khmer script)
- 𑅇𑄘 (Chakma script)
Verb
vada
- second-person singular imperative active of vadati (“to say”)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish vaþa, from Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-.
Verb
vada (present vadar, preterite vadade, supine vadat, imperative vada)
- to wade; to walk through (deep) water
- (generalized) to walk through anything which hampers one's progress
Conjugation
Conjugation of vada (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | vada | — | ||
| Supine | vadat | — | ||
| Imperative | vada | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | vaden | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | vadar | vadade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | vada | vadade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | vade | vadade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | vadande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
See also
- vadare
- vadarfågel
Anagrams
- avad