English

Proper noun

Ada

1. A female given name
   • 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?

2. (computing) A programming language.

Anagrams

• aad, AAD

Czech

Proper noun

Ada

1. A female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-.
2. A diminutive of Czech male given names beginning with Ad-, such as Adam.

Alternative forms

• Áďa

Latin

Noun

Ādā

1. ablative singular of Ādam

Norwegian

Etymology

Short for Germanic names beginning with Adel-, and also of Biblical Hebrew origin. Cognate with English Ada. Used as a given name in Norway since the 1850s.

Proper noun

Ada

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. A female given name

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1715 females with the given name Ada living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on March 29th 2011.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ada f

1. (biblical) Adah (wife of Lamech)
2. A female given name, equivalent to English Ada

Swedish

Etymology

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1762. Short form of names like Adela, and of biblical Hebrew origin. Cognate with English Ada.

Proper noun

Ada

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. A female given name

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån: 999 females with the given name Ada living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on March 29th 2011.

Azeri

Noun

ada ‎(definite accusative adanı, plural adalar)

1. island

Declension

Balinese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Chamic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wada, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *wada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

Verb

ada

1. to be (exist)

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

Noun

ada

1. egg
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Ada. Ovum.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

ada

1. island

Declension

Esperanto

Etymology

-ad- ‎(“continued action”) +‎ -a ‎(“adjective”)

Adjective

ada ‎(accusative singular adan, plural adaj, accusative plural adajn)

1. continual

French

Noun

ada m ‎(plural adas)

1. tyrant (bird)

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish hada.

Noun

áda

1. fairy

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ada, from Proto-Malayic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wada, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *wada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

Verb

ada

1. to be (exist)

Derived terms

• adakan
• adalah
• berada
• keadaan

Latvian

Verb

ada

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of adīt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of adīt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of adīt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of adīt

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *ada, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wada, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *wada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

Alternative forms

• اد

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /adə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ada/
• Rhymes: -adə, -də, -ə

Verb

ada ‎(Jawi spelling اد)

1. to be (exist)

Derived terms

• adakan / اداکن
• adalah / اداله
• berada / براد
• keadaan / کأداءن

Descendants

Northern Paiute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾa/

Etymology

Compare Cahuilla 'álwet

Noun

ada

1. crow

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish آدا ‎(ada).

Pronunciation

• (àda) IPA^(key): /ǎda/
• (áda) IPA^(key): /ǎːda/

Noun

àda, áda f ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀да, а́да)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) island (usually one on a river)

Declension

Synonyms

• ȍstrvo (Bosnia, Serbia)
• òtok (Croatia)

References

• “ada” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic أَدَاء ‎(ʾadāʾ, “payment”).

Noun

ada (n class, plural ada)

1. fee

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish hada ‎(“fairy”), from Vulgar Latin Fāta ‎(“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum ‎(“fate”).

Noun

ada

1. fairy

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary

Turkish

Etymology

Along with Ottoman Turkish آدا ‎(ada), either from Middle Turkic atağ ‎(“island”), from Old Turkic otruġ ‎(“separated place, cut place, island”), from otrul- ‎(“to be cut”), from Proto-Turkic [Term?].^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ada]

Noun

ada ‎(definite accusative adayı, plural adalar)

1. island

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ada”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

1. ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ada”, in Nişanyan Sözlük