vada

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

English

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

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, Mayhew, Henry, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, 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, Kenneth Williams as Sandy, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman:
      You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.
    • 2015 October 12, Lowe, Adam, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎:
      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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:vada.

Synonyms

  • For semantic relationships of this term, see look in the Thesaurus.

References

  1. ↑ Alan D. Corré, "Polari Words from Lingua Franca" in: A Glossary of Lingua Franca. 5th Edition, 2005

See also

Aragonese

Noun

vada f (plural vadas)

  1. strike (work stoppage)

Derived terms

Czech

Noun

vada f

  1. defect

Declension

See also

Further reading

  • vada in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • vada in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Verb

vada

  1. third-person singular past historic of vader

Italian

Verb

vada

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

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

vadā

  1. first-person singular present active imperative of vadō

Noun

vada

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

References

Latvian

Noun

vada m

  1. genitive singular form of vads

Novial

Verb

vada (past vadad, active participle vadant, passive participle vadat)

  1. to go

Antonyms

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

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.