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دادا

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Eshtehardi

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Noun

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دادا (dādām

  1. father

Malay

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Noun

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دادا (plural دادا-دادا or دادا٢)

  1. Jawi spelling of dada.‎

Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dādā
Dari reading? dādā
Iranian reading? dâdâ
Tajik reading? dodo

Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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دادا (dâdâ)

  1. nanny, nurse
Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: دادا (dâdâ)

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Turkic, compare Azerbaijani dədə, Uyghur دادا (dada), Turkish dede

Noun

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دادا (dādā / dâdâ) (Tajik spelling додо)

  1. (dialectal, Qazvini, Tajik) father
Alternative forms
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Urdu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Hindi دادا (dada /⁠dādā⁠/) (c. 1564),[1] from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀤𑀸𑀤𑁆𑀤 (*dādda) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), an onomatopoeic nursery reduplication.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دادا (dādām (female equivalent دادی (dādī), Hindi spelling दादा)

  1. paternal grandfather
  2. (polite) respectful address for an older / elderly man
  3. (by extension) a man who has raised or fostered a child like his own
  4. (Hindu) a dad
  5. (Maharashtra, Sindh, Hindu, endearing) elder brother
  6. Guru; master
  7. (slang) ringleader (of a gang)
  8. (in compounds) used to refer to a respected elder of an elder

Declension

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Declension of دادا
singular plural
direct دادا (dādā) دادے (dāde)
oblique دادے (dāde) دادوں (dādõ)
vocative دادے (dāde) دادو (dādo)
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References

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  1. ^ دادا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*dādda”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 359

Further reading

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Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Persian دادا (dâdâ).

Noun

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دادا (dādā)

  1. father, dad

Uyghur

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Other scripts
Arabic دادا
Latin dada
Cyrillic дада (dada)

Note: The Cyrillic follows the Kazakhstani standard.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دادا (dada) (plural دادىلار (dadilar))

  1. father

Declension

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See also

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