mada

• IPA^(key): [ˈmada]

mada m anim

1. racket-tail
2. any parrot of genus Tanygnathus

mada

1. inflection of mataa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• manda, meada

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãada, from Latin manuata (“a handful”).^[1] Cognate with Spanish manada and Italian manata.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaða̝/

mada f (plural madas)

1. handful, fistful

   Synonyms: manchea, presa

2. bundle; sheaf

   Synonyms: feixe, maínzo, mollo

3. pack; herd

   Synonyms: fato, grei, rabaño

4. school, shoal

   Synonym: cardume

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “manda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): [ˈmada]
• Hyphenation: ma‧da

mada

1. nonstandard spelling of madar (“mad, heartless”)

mada m (genitive singular mada, nominative plural madaí)

1. alternative form of madadh (“dog”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mada”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

mada

1. Rōmaji transcription of まだ

Borrowed from Sanskrit मद (mada, “intoxication”).

• IPA^(key): /mada/

mada

1. intoxication, infatuation, rage
2. intoxicating drink

mada

1. intoxicated, infatuated, enraged, conceited.

mada m

1. intoxication
2. infatuation; obsession
3. conceit; self-importance

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from German Mud, from Middle Low German mudde. Per Trubachyov inherited from Proto-Slavic *mada, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: ma‧da

mada f (related adjective madowy)

1. (geology) alluvial soil
2. (colloquial, rail transport) mixture of wet leaves or other materials and substances of natural origin deposited on railway or tram rails, which makes the track surface very slippery

• mada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*mada”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 118
• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “mada”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207
• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “mada”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 135
• Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “mada”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 11

mada m

1. alternative form of madadh

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mada”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

mada (Cyrillic spelling мада)

1. although
2. albeit

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji mada, Hadiyya mada and Oromo madaa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmada/
• Hyphenation: ma‧da

mada f 

1. wound, sore

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “mada”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

• Audio (Kenya):

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Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

mada class IX (plural mada class X)

1. topic, theme, subject

Borrowed from English murder.^[1]

-mada (infinitive kumada)

1. (Sheng) to murder or finish

Conjugation of -mada
Positive present -namada Subjunctive -made Negative -madi Imperative singular mada
Infinitives
Positive kumada Negative kutomada
Imperatives
Singular mada Plural madeni
Tensed forms
Habitual humada Positive past positive subject concord + -limada Negative past negative subject concord + -kumada
Positive present (positive subject concord + -namada) Singular Plural 1st person ninamada/namada tunamada 2nd person unamada mnamada 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anamada wanamada other classes positive subject concord + -namada
Negative present (negative subject concord + -madi) Singular Plural 1st person simadi hatumadi 2nd person humadi hammadi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hamadi hawamadi other classes negative subject concord + -madi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tamada Negative future negative subject concord + -tamada
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -made) Singular Plural 1st person nimade tumade 2nd person umade mmade 3rd person m-wa(I/II) amade wamade other classes positive subject concord + -made
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -simade Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngemada Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singemada Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalimada Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalimada
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -amada) Singular Plural 1st person namada twamada 2nd person wamada mwamada 3rd person m-wa(I/II) amada wamada m-mi(III/IV) wamada yamada ji-ma(V/VI) lamada yamada ki-vi(VII/VIII) chamada vyamada n(IX/X) yamada zamada u(XI) wamada see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwamada pa(XVI) pamada mu(XVIII) mwamada
Perfect positive subject concord + -memada "Already" positive subject concord + -meshamada "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jamada "If/When" positive subject concord + -kimada "If not" positive subject concord + -sipomada Consecutive kamada / positive subject concord + -kamada Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kamade
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nimada -tumada 2nd person -kumada -wamada/-kumadeni/-wamadeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mmada -wamada m-mi(III/IV) -umada -imada ji-ma(V/VI) -limada -yamada ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kimada -vimada n(IX/X) -imada -zimada u(XI) -umada see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kumada pa(XVI) -pamada mu(XVIII) -mumada Reflexive -jimada
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -mada- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -madaye -madao m-mi(III/IV) -madao -madayo ji-ma(V/VI) -madalo -madayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -madacho -madavyo n(IX/X) -madayo -madazo u(XI) -madao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -madako pa(XVI) -madapo mu(XVIII) -madamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -mada) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yemada -omada m-mi(III/IV) -omada -yomada ji-ma(V/VI) -lomada -yomada ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chomada -vyomada n(IX/X) -yomada -zomada u(XI) -omada see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -komada pa(XVI) -pomada mu(XVIII) -momada
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Cognate with Ternate mada, Tidore moda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.d̪a/

mada

1. (informal) the mouth

   Synonym: pasul (polite)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): [maɾ̠a]

mada (possessed madadü)

1. foliage, plant(s), herbs in general
2. herb(s) used for magical purposes, especially the kind of wild elephant ear plant called woi

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “mada”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[3], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 35, 57–58, 62, 63, 79, 108, 128, 227, 240, 244: “maada”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[4], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 220: “maada”
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎^[5], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 30, 32, 99–101, 112–113, 121, 128, 157, 172, 174, 176–178, 180, 190, 193–194, 200, etc.: “mada”