# ado
## English
### Etymology

From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈduː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː

### Noun

ado (uncountable)
* trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a wantwit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
** 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”

#### Usage notes

Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such as without further ado or much ado about nothing.

#### Translations

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### See also

* à deux
* adieu

### References

* “ado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* dao, oda, Oda, Dao, oad, DAO, AOD, DOA, DAo, ODA

## Afar
### Alternative forms

* (Southern dialects) aadó

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈdo/ [ʔʌˈdɔ]
* Hyphenation: a‧do

### Noun

adó f
* (Northern dialects) generation
* (Northern dialects) era

#### Declension
### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ado”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Ambonese Malay
### Lemma

ado
* expression of annoyance

## French
### Etymology

Clipping of adolescent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.do/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ado m or f by sense (plural ados)
* (colloquial) teen, teenager

## Gun
### Etymology

Cognate with Saxwe Gbe ado, Adja edu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.dó/

### Noun

àdó
* wall

## Japanese
### Romanization

ado
* Rōmaji transcription of あど

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀅𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* अदो (Devanagari script)
* অদো (Bengali script)
* අදො (Sinhalese script)
* အဒေါ or ဢၻေႃ (Burmese script)
* อโท or อะโท (Thai script)
* ᩋᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
* ອໂທ or ອະໂທ (Lao script)
* អទោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Verb

ado
* second-person singular aorist active of dadāti (“to give”)

## Scots
### Verb

ado
* Alternative form of adae

### Noun

ado (plural adoes or ado's)
* Alternative form of adae

### References

* “ado”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Sidamo
### Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji ada, Hadiyya ado and Kambaata ado.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈado/
* Hyphenation: a‧do

### Noun

ado f (uncountable)
* milk

### References

* Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
* Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “ado”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈ(ʔ)a.do]

### Verb

ado
* (intransitive) to arrive

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Ye'kwana
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arroz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aɾ̠o]

### Noun

ado
* rice

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ado”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon