Ada

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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^(key): /ˈeɪdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪdə

Proper noun

Ada

1. 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?

2. (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++.

3. A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota, United States
4. 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^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈa.ða]

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Czech

Alternative forms

• Áďa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈada]

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-

Declension

Declension of Ada (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ady
genitive	Ady	Ad
dative	Adě	Adám
accusative	Adu	Ady
vocative	Ado	Ady
locative	Adě	Adách
instrumental	Adou	Adami

Proper noun

Ada m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Adam

Declension

Declension of Ada (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Adové
genitive	Ady	Adů
dative	Adovi	Adům
accusative	Adu	Ady
vocative	Ado	Adové
locative	Adovi	Adech
instrumental	Adou	Ady

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^(key): /ˈaː.daː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ada

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta
• Homophone: ata

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Declension

declension of Ada

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Ada	Adan	Ödur	Ödurnar
accusative	Ödu	Öduna	Ödur	Ödurnar
dative	Ödu	Ödunni	Ödum	Ödunum
genitive	Ödu	Ödunnar	Ada	Adanna

Latin

Proper noun

Ādā

1. 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)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. 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^(key): /ˈa.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ada

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ady
genitive	Ady	Ad
dative	Adzie	Adom
accusative	Adę	Ady
instrumental	Adą	Adami
locative	Adzie	Adach
vocative	Ado	Ady

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɐ/ [ˈa.ðɐ]

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧da

Proper noun

Ada f

1. (biblical) Adah (wife of Lamech)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈada/ [ˈa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Proper noun

Ada f

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. 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)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

References

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