Rada

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rada"

English

Etymology 1

After the personal name (Rada Dany) of a prominent local family.

Proper noun

Rada

1. An unincorporated community in West Virginia

Etymology 2

Apparently a local form of Arada (now Allada), a city in ancient Dahomey.

Noun

Rada (uncountable)

1. In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Dahomeyan origin, chiefly associated with warmth and benevolence.
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 60:

     The majority of the deities are Dahomean and the rites of these are called Rada, from the town Allada.

   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 49:

     In Haiti, the Rada have come to represent the emotional stability and warmth of Africa, the hearth of the nation.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 31:

     Most books on Vodou have concentrated largely on the Rada pantheon.

   • 2012, Mambo Chita Tann, Haitian Vodou, page 95:

     We associate the Rada Lwa with the color white and with a sense of purity and formality. Because of this, anthropologists and non-Haitians often described the Rada as the “good ancestral Lwa,” while the spirits of the Petro nation of Lwa were considered “evil,” or invented by slaves in Haiti, though this is extremely oversimplified.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Proper noun

Rada

1. Alternative letter-case form of rada

Translations

rada — see rada

Anagrams

• ADAR, Adar, Dara, Draa, Drâa, Raad, arad, raad

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrada]

Proper noun

Rada m anim (female equivalent Radová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Rada (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Rada	Radové
genitive	Rady	Radů
dative	Radovi	Radům
accusative	Radu	Rady
vocative	Rado	Radové
locative	Radovi	Radech
instrumental	Radou	Rady

Further reading

• “Rada”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)