Ada
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ada"
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Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (“noble”), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.
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Ada
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1818 George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the third: I:
- Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! / Ada! Sole daughter of my house and heart?
- 1818 George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the third: I:
- (computer languages) An object-oriented programming language extended from Pascal and other languages.
- A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota, United States
- A city, the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Ada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ada (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Ada f
- a female given name
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Ada f
- a female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-
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Ada m anim
- a diminutive of the male given name Adam
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Middle Dutch?”)
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Ada f
- a female given name
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Ada f
- a female given name
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Ādā
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Short for Germanic names beginning with Adel-, and also of Biblical Hebrew origin. Used as a given name in Norway since the 1850s.
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Ada f (definite Ada)
- Adah (Biblical figure)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ada
References edit
- Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
- Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3 857 females with the given name Ada living in Norway on January 1st 2023, with the frequency peak in the 2020s. Accessed on 26th March, 2023.
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Ada f
- a female given name
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- Rhymes: -adɐ
- Hyphenation: A‧da
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Ada f
- (biblical) Adah (wife of Lamech)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ada
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Ada f
- Adah (Biblical figure)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ada
Swedish edit
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First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1762. Short form of names like Adela, and of biblical Hebrew origin.
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Audio (file)
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Ada c (genitive Adas)
- Adah (Biblical figure)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Ada