Ada

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ada"

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə

Proper noun

Ada

2. 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?

4. (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++.

5. 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.
6. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Derived terms

• Ada County
• Adalyn
• Adalynn
• Floydada

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• AAD, aad

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Czech

Alternative forms

• Áďa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈada]

Proper noun

Ada f

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

Declension

Declension of Ada (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ady
genitive	Ady	Ad
dative	Adě	Adám
accusative	Adu	Ady
vocative	Ado	Ady
locative	Adě	Adách
instrumental	Adou	Adami

Proper noun

Ada m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Adam

Declension

Declension of Ada (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Adové
genitive	Ady	Adů
dative	Adovi	Adům
accusative	Adu	Ady
vocative	Ado	Adové
locative	Adovi	Adech
instrumental	Adou	Ady

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.daː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ada

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdɒ]
• Rhymes: -dɒ
• Hyphenation: Ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Proper noun

Ada

1. Ada (a town and municipality of the North Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia)
2. a female given name from German, equivalent to English Ada

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Adák
accusative	Adát	Adákat
dative	Adának	Adáknak
instrumental	Adával	Adákkal
causal-final	Adáért	Adákért
translative	Adává	Adákká
terminative	Adáig	Adákig
essive-formal	Adaként	Adákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Adában	Adákban
superessive	Adán	Adákon
adessive	Adánál	Adáknál
illative	Adába	Adákba
sublative	Adára	Adákra
allative	Adához	Adákhoz
elative	Adából	Adákból
delative	Adáról	Adákról
ablative	Adától	Adáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	Adáé	Adáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	Adáéi	Adákéi

Possessive forms of Ada

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Adám	Adáim
2nd person sing.	Adád	Adáid
3rd person sing.	Adája	Adái
1st person plural	Adánk	Adáink
2nd person plural	Adátok	Adáitok
3rd person plural	Adájuk	Adáik

Derived terms

• adai

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ada f (proper noun, genitive singular Ödu)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ada (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Ada
accusative	Ödu
dative	Ödu
genitive	Ödu

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.daː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.da]

Proper noun

Ādā

1. ablative singular of Ādām

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Ada f (definite Ada)

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

References

• 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.

Old Dutch

Etymology

Compare to Addo.

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ada (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun - no plural)

case	singular
nominative	Ada
accusative	Ada, Adon
genitive	Adon
dative	Adon

Further reading

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Etymology 1

From Germanic.

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ada

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ady
genitive	Ady	Ad
dative	Adzie	Adom
accusative	Adę	Ady
instrumental	Adą	Adami
locative	Adzie	Adach
vocative	Ado	Ady

Etymology 2

Clipping of Adrianna.

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Adrianna

Declension

Declension of Ada

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ady
genitive	Ady	Ad
dative	Adzie	Adom
accusative	Adę	Ady
instrumental	Adą	Adami
locative	Adzie	Adach
vocative	Ado	Ady

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɐ/ [ˈa.ðɐ]

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧da

Proper noun

Ada f

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎːda/

Proper noun

Áda f (Cyrillic spelling А́да)

1. (Croatia) a female given name

Declension

    Declension of Ada

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ade
genitive	Ade	Ada
dative	Adi	Adama
accusative	Adu	Ade
vocative	Ado	Ade
locative	Adi	Adama
instrumental	Adom	Adama

Further reading

• “Ada”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /áːda/

Proper noun

Áda f

1. a female given name

Declension

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

Further reading

• “Ada”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ada f

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

Swedish

Etymology

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1762. Short form of names like Adela, and of biblical Hebrew origin.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ada c (genitive Adas)

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

References

• 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.

Turkish

Etymology

From the Turkish noun ada, meaning “island”.

Proper noun

Ada Ada

1. A genderless given name in Turkish

References

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