# vada
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɑːdə/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).

#### Noun

vada (plural vadas)
* A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
** 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 204:I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.

##### Translations
### 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)
* (Polari) To look (at), to see
** 1851, Henry Mayhew, “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 generally use. […] "'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window. […] "
** 1967, Barry Took, 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: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

#### References

* ↑ Alan D. Corré (2005) “Polari Words from Lingua Franca”, in A Glossary of Lingua Franca‎, 5th edition

### See also

* batata vada
* vada pav

### Anagrams

* Dava

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### Etymology

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### Noun

vada f (plural vadas)
* strike (work stoppage)

#### Derived terms

* vada cheneral

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vada. Analyzable as deverbal from vadit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvada]

### Noun

vada f
* defect
    vada řeči ― speech impediment
    vrozená vada ― birth defect

#### Related terms

* bezvadný
* vadný
* závada

#### See also

* kaz
* nedostatek
* defekt

### Further reading

* “vada”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “vada”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “vada”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## French
### Verb

vada
* third-person singular past historic of vader

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈva.da/
* Rhymes: -ada
* Hyphenation: và‧da

### Verb

vada
* inflection of andare:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* dava

## Latin
### Verb

vadā
* second-person singular present active imperative of vadō

### Noun

vada
* nominative/accusative/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

## Latvian
### Noun

vada m
* genitive singular of vads

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Deverbal formation from the o-grade of vèsti (“to lead”).

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

vadà f (plural vãdos) stress pattern 4
* animals from a litter; offspring
* leadership
* excuse, pretext

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “vadà”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎ (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 709

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* va
* vade (e-infinitive)
* våddå (Trøndelag dialect)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaː(d)a/, /vada/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną.

#### Verb

vada (present tense vader, past tense vadde, past participle vadt/vadd, passive infinitive vadast, present participle vadande, imperative vad)
* (intransitive) to wade
** Om Erik vil koma seg til strendom, må han uansett vada yver åi.
    If Erik want to come to the beaches, he must anyway wade over the creek.
* (intransitive, chiefly about fish) swim at the surface

##### Usage notes

* Prior to 1938, vada was considered a class 6 strong verb – at which point it was superseded by a weak inflection short form va. Was reintroduced to the official spelling by the 1959 spelling reform.
* This is a split infinitive verb.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

vada n
* definite plural of vad
* definite plural of vad

### References

* “vada” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “vada”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

### Anagrams

* dava

## Pali
### Alternative forms

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

## 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)
* to wade; to walk through (deep) water
* (figuratively) to walk through anything which hampers one's progress

#### See also

* vadare
* vadarfågel

### References

* vada in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* vada in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* vada in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* avad