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)

1. A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 204:

     I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.

Translations

Asian doughnut

• Caribbean Hindustani: bára (Sarnami)
• Dutch: bara (nl) m
• Gujarati: વડા m (vaḍā)
• Hindi: वड़ा (hi) m (vaṛā), बड़ा (hi) m (baṛā)
• Kannada: ವಡೆ (kn) (vaḍe)
• Malay: wade
• Malayalam: വട (ml) (vaṭa)
• Marathi: वडा (mr) m (vaḍā)
• Odia: ବରା (or) (bôra)
• Punjabi: ਵੜਾ (vaṛā)
• Sranan Tongo: bara
• Tamil: வடை (ta) (vaṭai)
• Telugu: వడ (te) (vaḍa)
• Tulu: ವಡೆ (vaḍe)
• Urdu: وڑا m (vaṛā)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)

Alternative forms

• varder

Verb

vada (third-person singular simple present vadas, present participle vadaing, simple past and past participle vada'd)

1. (Polari) To look (at), to see
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎^[2], 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, 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, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:look

See also

• batata vada
• 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)

1. strike (work stoppage)

Derived terms

• vada cheneral

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vada. Analyzable as deverbal from vadit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvada]

Noun

vada f

1. defect

   vada řeči ― speech impediment

   vrozená vada ― birth defect

Declension

Declension of vada (hard feminine)

	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

1. third-person singular past historic of vader

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: và‧da

Verb

vada

1. inflection of andare:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• dava

Latin

Verb

vadā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vadō

Noun

vada

1. 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

1. genitive singular 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 vadt/vadd, passive infinitive vadast, present participle vadande, imperative vad)

1. (intransitive) to wade
   • Om Erik vil koma seg til strendom, må han uansett vada yver åi.

     If Erik want to come to the beaches, he must anyway wade over the creek.

2. (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 superseded 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

1. definite plural of vad
2. 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

1. 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)

1. to wade; to walk through (deep) water
2. (figuratively) 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

References

• vada in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vada in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vada in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• avad