Ada

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪdə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə

Ada

1. 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?

2. (computer languages) An object-oriented programming language extended from Pascal and other languages.
   • 2019, Andrew T. Shvets, Beginning Ada Programming: From Novice to Professional, Apress, →ISBN, page 11:

     If anything, Ada is actually fairly easy to learn. The syntax is so explicit, that it is much more difficult to misunderstand what the code is doing than in C/C++.

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama.
   2. A census-designated place in Ottawa County, Kansas.
   3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Kent County, Michigan.
   4. A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota.
   5. A township in Dickey County, North Dakota.
   6. A village in Hardin County, Ohio.
   7. A city, the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.
   8. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
   9. A township in Perkins County, South Dakota.
   10. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia.
   11. An unincorporated community in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.

• Ada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ada (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AAD, aad

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈa.ða]

Ada f

1. a female given name

• Áďa

• IPA^(key): [ˈada]

Ada f

1. a female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-

Ada m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Adam

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Middle Dutch?”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.daː/

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• Hyphenation: Ada

Ada f

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Àda / А̀да, from àda (“island, eyot”),^[1] from Ottoman Turkish آطه (ada).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ada
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Ada

1. Ada (a town and municipality of the North Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta
• Homophone: ata

Ada f (proper noun, genitive singular Ödu)

1. a female given name

Ādā

1. ablative singular of Ādām

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

Ada f (definite Ada)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

• 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.

Compare to Addo.

Ada f

1. a female given name

• Maurits Gysseling (1982) “Noordwesteuropese persoonsnaambestanddelen”, in Naamkunde. Jaargang 14‎^[1] (in Dutch), page 86

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

From Germanic.

Ada f

1. a female given name

Clipping of Adrianna.

Ada f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Adrianna

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧da

Ada f

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

• IPA^(key): /ǎːda/

Áda f (Cyrillic spelling А́да)

1. (Croatia) a female given name

• “Ada”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

• IPA^(key): /áːda/

Áda f

1. a female given name

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	Ada
gen. sing.	Ade
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Ada	Adi	Ade
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ade	Ad	Ad
dative (dajȃlnik)	Adi	Adama	Adam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Ado	Adi	Ade
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Adi	Adah	Adah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Ado	Adama	Adami

• “Ada”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈada/ [ˈa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Ada f

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

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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Ada c (genitive Adas)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån: 999 females with the given name Ada living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on March 29th 2011.

From the Turkish noun ada, meaning “island”.

Ada Ada

1. A feminine given name in Turkish, derived from the noun ada meaning “island”.

• Glosbe – Turkish to English: “ada” = “island”
• Names.org – Ada: Turkish origin meaning “island”
• Behind the Name – Ada (Turkish meaning, user-submitted)