vada

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɑːdə/

Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).

vada (plural vadas)

1. A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 204:

     I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.

Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)^[1]

• varder

vada (third-person singular simple present vadas, present participle vadaing, simple past and past participle vada'd)

1. (Polari) To look (at), to see
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎^[3], volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:

     […] "The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession^[sic] generally use. […]
     "'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window. […] "

   • 1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):

     You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.

   • 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vada.

• See Thesaurus:look

• batata vada
• vada pav

• Dava

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vada f (plural vadas)

1. strike (work stoppage)

• vada cheneral

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vada. Analyzable as deverbal from vadit.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvada]

vada f

1. defect

   vada řeči ― speech impediment

   vrozená vada ― birth defect

• kaz
• nedostatek
• defekt

• “vada”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vada”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “vada”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

vada

1. third-person singular past historic of vader

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: và‧da

vada

1. inflection of andare:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• dava

vadā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vadō

vada

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vadum

• "vada", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vada”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

vada m

1. genitive singular of vads

Deverbal formation from the o-grade of vèsti (“to lead”).^[1]

vadà f (plural vãdos) stress pattern 4

1. animals from a litter; offspring
2. leadership
3. excuse, pretext

• va
• vade (e-infinitive)
• våddå (Trøndelag)

• IPA^(key): /vaː(d)a/, /vada/

From Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną.

vada (present tense vader, past tense vadde, past participle vadt/vadd, passive infinitive vadast, present participle vadande, imperative vad)

1. (intransitive) to wade
   • Om Erik vil koma seg til strendom, må han uansett vada yver åi.

     If Erik want to come to the beaches, he must anyway wade over the creek.

2. (intransitive, chiefly about fish) swim at the surface

• Prior to 1938, vada was considered a class 6 strong verb – at which point it was superseded by a weak inflection short form va. Was reintroduced to the official spelling by the 1959 spelling reform.
• This is a split infinitive verb.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vada n

1. definite plural of vad
2. definite plural of vad

• “vada” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “vada”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

• dava

vada

1. second-person singular imperative active of vadati (“to say”)

From Old Swedish vaþa, from Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-.

vada (present vadar, preterite vadade, supine vadat, imperative vada)

1. to wade; to walk through (deep) water
2. (figuratively) to walk through anything which hampers one's progress

• vadare
• vadarfågel

• vada in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vada in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vada in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• avad