# 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: /ˈeɪdə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪdə

### Proper noun

Ada
* 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?
* (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++.
* A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota, United States
* A city, the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

#### Derived terms

* Ada County

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* AAD, aad

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.ðə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈa.ða]

### Proper noun

Ada f
* a female given name

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* Áďa

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈada]

### Proper noun

Ada f
* a female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-

#### Declension
### Proper noun

Ada m anim
* a diminutive of the male given name Adam

#### Declension
## 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: /ˈaː.daː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Ada

### Proper noun

Ada f
* a female given name

## Hungarian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Serbo-Croatian àda?”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɒdɒ]
* Hyphenation: Ada
* Rhymes: -dɒ

### Proper noun

Ada
* Ada (a town and municipality of the North Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia)

#### Derived terms

* adai

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːta/
* Rhymes: -aːta
* Homophone: ata

### Proper noun

Ada f (proper noun, genitive singular Ödu)
* a female given name

#### Declension
## Latin
### Proper noun

Ādā
* 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)
* Adah (Biblical figure)
* 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.

## Polish
### Etymology

From Germanic adal (“noble”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ada
* Syllabification: A‧da

### Proper noun

Ada f
* a female given name

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.dɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.dɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.da/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.dɐ/ [ˈa.ðɐ]
* Rhymes: -adɐ
* Hyphenation: A‧da

### Proper noun

Ada f
* (biblical) Adah (wife of Lamech)
* a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǎːda/

### Proper noun

Áda f (Cyrillic spelling А́да)
* (Croatia) a female given name

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Ada”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /áːda/

### Proper noun

Áda f
* a female given name

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Ada”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈada/ [ˈa.ð̞a]
* Rhymes: -ada
* Syllabification: A‧da

### Proper noun

Ada f
* Adah (Biblical figure)
* 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:(file)

### Proper noun

Ada c (genitive Adas)
* Adah (Biblical figure)
* a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

### References

* Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
* Statistiska centralbyrån: 999 females with the given name Ada living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on March 29th 2011.