صدا

From Arabic صَدَأْ (ṣadaʔ).

• IPA^(key): /sˤada/
• Homophone: صَدَى (ṣada)

صدا • (ṣada) m

1. rust

From Arabic صَدَّأ (ṣaddaʔ).

• IPA^(key): /sˤadda/

صدا • (ṣadda) I (non-past يِصَدِّي (yiṣaddi))

1. to rust

   الحديد صدأ ― al-ḥadīd ṣadda ― the steel rusted

Borrowed from Arabic صَدًى (ṣadan, “echo”).

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صِدا or صَدا • (sedâ or sadâ) (plural صداها)

1. sound, call, voice

   Synonyms: آوا (âvâ), نِدا (nedâ)

   • Farhad, مرد تنها (mard-e tanhâ)

     با صدای بی‌صدا
     مثه یه کوه بلند
     مثه یه خواب کوتاه
     یه مرد بود یه مرد

     bâ sedâ-ye bi-sedâ
     mes-e ye kuh boland
     mes-e ye xâb kutâh
     ye mard bud, ye mard

     with a voiceless voice,
     lofty as a mountain,
     brief as a dream,
     there was a man, a man...

     (مثه is a phonetic spelling of the colloquial variant of مثلِ)

2. noise

   Synonym: سَر و صِدا (sar-o-sedâ)

Borrowed from Classical Persian صدا (sadā), from Arabic صَدًى (ṣadan).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.d̪ɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: صَ‧دا

صَدا • (sadā) f (Hindi spelling सदा)

1. sound, voice, echo
2. call, shout, cry
3. ring, bell

• “صدا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “صدا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.