صدا

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology 1

Inherited from Arabic صَدَأْ (ṣadaʔ).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

صدا • (ṣada) m

1. rust

Etymology 2

Inherited from Arabic صَدَّأ (ṣaddaʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤadda/

Verb

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

1. to rust

   الحديد صدأ ― al-ḥadīd ṣadda ― the steel rusted

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sa.ˈdaː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.d̪ɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.d̪ɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.d̪ɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.d̪ɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [se.d̪ɒ́ː], [sæ.d̪ɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.d̪ɔ́]

• Rhymes: -aː

Readings
Classical reading?	sadā
Dari reading?	sadā
Iranian reading?	sedâ, sadâ
Tajik reading?	sado

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

صدا • (sadā / sedâ, sadâ) (plural صداها (sadā-hā / sedâ-hâ, sadâ-hâ), Tajik spelling садо)

1. sound, call, voice

   Synonyms: آوا (āwā / âvâ), ندا (nidā / 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

Derived terms

nouns, adjectives

• بی‌صدا (bē-sadā / bi-sedâ)
• سر و صدا (sar u sadā / sar o sedâ)
• صدادار (sadā-dār / sedâ-dâr)
• هم‌صدا (ham-sadā / ham-sedâ)
• پادصدا (pād-sadā / pâd-sedâ, “antiphonal”)

verbs

• صدا زدن (sadā zadan / sedâ zadan)
• صدا کردن (sadā kardan / sedâ kardan)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: səda
• → Chagatai: صدا (ṣdā /⁠sädā⁠/)
  • Uzbek: sado, sazo
  • Uyghur: سادا (sada)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सदा (sadā)

  Urdu: صَدا (sadā)

• → Ottoman Turkish: صدا (seda)
  • Turkish: seda
• → Turkmen: seza, seda

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

صَدا • (sadā) f (Hindi spelling सदा)

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

References

• “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, 2026.