Borrowed fromHindi वड़ा ( vaṛā ) .
vada (plural vadas )
A type ofsavoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.2008 , Aravind Adiga,The White Tiger , Atlantic, published2009 , page204 :I bought a tea and a potatovada , and sat under a banyan tree to eat.
Borrowed fromSabir vada , ultimately fromItalian vedere ( “ to see ” ) [ 1]
vada (third-person singular simple present vadas ,present participle vadaing ,simple past and past participle vada'd )
( Polari ) Tolook (at), tosee 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week:Vada That”, inThe Guardian [4] :Though she's abimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal andtart . And girl, you know /vadaing hereek is alwaysbona . For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:vada . ^ Alan D. Corré (2005 ) “Polari Words from Lingua Franca”, inA Glossary of Lingua Franca [1] , 5th edition A user has added this entry torequests for verification (+ ) If it cannot be verified that this term meets ourattestation criteria , it will be deleted. Feel free to edit this entry as normal, but do not remove{{rfv }}
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vada f (plural vadas )
strike ( work stoppage ) Inherited fromProto-Slavic *vada . Analyzable asdeverbal fromvadit .
vada f
defect vada řeči ―speechimpediment vrozená vada ―birthdefect Declension ofvada (hard feminine )
“vada ”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957 “vada ”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989 “vada ”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025 vada
third-person singular past historic ofvader vada
inflection ofandare : first / second / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative vadā
second-person singular present active imperative ofvadō vada
nominative / accusative / vocative plural ofvadum "vada ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “vada ”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , volume1 & 2 , London: Walton and Maberly vada m
genitive singular ofvads Deverbal formation from theo-grade ofvèsti ( “ to lead ” ) .[ 1]
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vadà f (plural vãdos ) stress pattern 4
animals from alitter ;offspring leadership excuse ,pretext ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007 ) “vadà ”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [2] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page709 FromOld Norse vaða , fromProto-Germanic *wadaną .
vada (present tense vader ,past tense vadde ,past participle vadt /vadd ,passive infinitive vadast ,present participle vadande ,imperative vad )
( intransitive ) towade Om Erik vil koma seg til strendom, må han uansettvada yver åi.If Erik want to come to the beaches, he must anywaywade over the creek. ( intransitive , chiefly about fish) swim at thesurface Prior to1938 ,vada was considered aclass 6 strong verb – at which point it was superseded by a weak inflection short formva . Was reintroduced to the official spelling by the1959 spelling reform . This is a split infinitive verb. See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
vada n
definite plural ofvad definite plural ofvad “vada” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .“vada” , inNorsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet , Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016Alternative scripts
𑀯𑀤 ( Brahmi script ) वद ( Devanagari script ) ৰদ ( Bengali script ) වද ( Sinhalese script ) ဝဒ orဝၻ ( Burmese script ) วท orวะทะ ( Thai script ) ᩅᨴ ( Tai Tham script ) ວທ orວະທະ ( Lao script ) វទ ( Khmer script ) 𑅇𑄘 ( Chakma script ) vada
second-person singular imperative active ofvadati ( “ to say ” ) FromOld Swedish vaþa , fromOld Norse vaða , fromProto-Germanic *wadaną . Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- .
vada (present vadar ,preterite vadade ,supine vadat ,imperative vada )
towade ; to walk through (deep) water ( figuratively ) to walk through anything which hampers one's progressConjugation ofvada (weak) active passive infinitive vada — supine vadat — imperative vada — imper. plural 1 vaden — present past present past indicative vadar vadade — — ind. plural 1 vada vadade — — subjunctive 2 vade vadade — — present participle vadande past participle —