vada

See also: váda, vadā, vadă, vådă, vāda, vaða, and вада

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).

Noun

vada (plural vadas)

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

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

Translations

Asian doughnut

• Gujarati: વડા m (vaḍā)
• Hindi: वड़ा (hi) m (vaṛā)
• Kannada: ವಡೆ (kn) (vaḍe)
• Malay: wade
• Malayalam: വട (ml) (vaṭa)
• Oriya: ବରା (or) (barā)
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• Punjabi: ਵੜਾ (vaṛā)
• Tamil: வடை (ta) (vaṭai)
• Telugu: వడ (te) (vaḍa)
• Tulu: ವಡೆ (vaḍe)
• Urdu: وڑا m (vaṛā)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)

Alternative forms

• varder

Verb

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^[1], 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 and 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^[2]:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:look

See also

• vada pav

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Aragonese

Etymology

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

Noun

vada f (plural vadas)

1. strike (work stoppage)

Derived terms

• vada cheneral

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Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvada]

Noun

vada f

1. defect

Related terms

• vadný
• závada

See also

• kaz
• nedostatek
• defekt

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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French

Verb

vada

1. third-person singular past historic of vader

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Italian

Verb

vada

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

Anagrams

• dava

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) vadā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vadō

Noun

(deprecated template usage) vada

1. nominative plural of vadum
2. accusative plural of vadum
3. vocative plural of vadum

References

• 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

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Latvian

Noun

vada m

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular form of vads

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Novial

Etymology

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

Verb

1. to go

Antonyms

• veni

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀯𑀤 (Brahmi script)
• वद (Devanagari script)
• ৰদ (Bengali script)
• වද (Sinhalese script)
• ဝဒ or ဝၻ (Burmese script)
• วท or วะทะ (Thai script)
• ᩅᨴ (Tai Tham script)
• ວທ or ວະທະ (Lao script)
• វទ (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄘 (Chakma script)

Verb

vada

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

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of vada (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	vada		—
Supine	vadat		—
Imperative	vada		—
Imper. plural1	vaden		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	vadar	vadade	—	—
Ind. plural1	vada	vadade	—	—
Subjunctive2	vade	vadade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	vadande
Past participle	—
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

• vadare
• vadarfågel

Anagrams

• avad