Rada
Rada is the term for "parliament" or "assembly" or some other "council" in several Slavic languages. Normally it is translated as "council". Sometimes it corresponds to "parliament", or in Soviet Union contexts, to "soviet". It also carries a meaning of advice, as in the English word "counsel". Etymology. Old High German "rāt" (from Proto-Germanic "*rēdaz") passed (possibly through Polish) into the Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian languages. Alternately the source was the Gothic language "radan - 𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌽" - to council, to deliberate, that passed to West Slavic in the Iron Age during the Wielbark and Chernyakhov cultures presence along  Vistula river and in Western Ukraine, as the term "rada" may be present in such first millennium CE names as Slavic Radogoszcz, Radgoszcz, Radhošť, Radegost, Radagast, Ardagast - Radogost, and Gothic Radagaisus. The dispersal to East Slavic Languages, could have happened later, possibly through Polish. "Råd" in Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, "Rat" in German, "neuvosto" or "raati" in Finnish and "nõukogu" or "raad" in Estonia/Dutch mean "council" or "assembly", but also "advice", as it does in East Slavic (except Russian) and West Slavic, but not South Slavic, languages. In Swedish the verb "råda" (to counsel) is based on the substantive  råd. This is similar to Danish "råd" (noun) and "råde" (verb). Examples. In Belarus In Czechia In Poland In Slovakia In Ukraine Historically, the "Verkhovna Rada" was also the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Українська "Радянська" Соціалістична Республіка [УРСР], "Ukrayins'ka "Radyans'ka" Sotsialistychna Respublika [URSR]"), which was itself part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Союз "Радянських" Соціалістичних Республік, [СРСР]), the word "rada" replacing the Russian word "soviet" in both cases. See official names of the Soviet Union.