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

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^(key): [ˈɒdɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ada
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Proper noun

Ada

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	—
accusative	Adát	—
dative	Adának	—
instrumental	Adával	—
causal-final	Adáért	—
translative	Adává	—
terminative	Adáig	—
essive-formal	Adaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Adában	—
superessive	Adán	—
adessive	Adánál	—
illative	Adába	—
sublative	Adára	—
allative	Adához	—
elative	Adából	—
delative	Adáról	—
ablative	Adától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Adáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Adáéi	—

Possessive forms of Ada
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Adám	—
2nd person sing.	Adád	—
3rd person sing.	Adája	—
1st person plural	Adánk	—
2nd person plural	Adátok	—
3rd person plural	Adájuk	—

Derived terms

• adai

 

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ada f (proper noun, genitive singular Ödu)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ada (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Ada
accusative	Ödu
dative	Ödu
genitive	Ödu

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

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Ada f (Cyrillic spelling Ада)

1. (Croatia) a female given name

Declension

    Declension of Ada

	singular	plural
nominative	Ada	Ade
genitive	Ade	Ada
dative	Adi	Adama
accusative	Adu	Ade
vocative	Ado	Ade
locative	Adi	Adama
instrumental	Adom	Adama

Further reading

• “Ada”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /áːda/

Proper noun

Áda f

1. a female given name

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	Ada
gen. sing.	Ade
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Ada	Adi	Ade
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ade	Ad	Ad
dative (dajȃlnik)	Adi	Adama	Adam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Ado	Adi	Ade
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Adi	Adah	Adah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Ado	Adama	Adami

Further reading

• “Ada”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

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.