fada

See also: fādá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish fada (“long”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdə
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Noun

fada (plural fadas)

1. The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
   • 1993, John Minahane, The Christian Druids: On the Filid or Philosopher-poets of Ireland, Dublin: Sanas Press (reprinted Dublin: Howth Free Press, 2008, →ISBN p. 35:

     When I read in the RIA Dictionary that the third person singular passive perfect of the verb fo-geib or fo-gaib “has been found”, has been found in the form frith, frioth, fo frith, foríth, and whole lot more including fríth with the fada, I find that friothfully froth-provoking.

   • 2006, Elizabeth Keane, An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary: The Nationalist and Internationalist Politics of Seán MacBride‎^[1], London: I. B. Tauris, →ISBN, page vii:

     The Irish acute accent mark, or fada, is included on Irish proper names and words in the Irish language where required, for example Seán MacBride and Dáil Éireann, except when the fada is not used in a direct quote.

   • 2007, Holly Bennett, The Warrior’s Daughter, Custer, Washington: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page ix:

     And finally, I have omitted the fadas, or accents, from all Irish words, since they are no help to a North American reader.

   • 2008, Caroline Williams, “The Irish Playography: documenting the Irish Theatrical Repertoire”, in M. Auclair, K. Davis, S. François, editors, Du document à l’utilisateur : Rôles et responsabilités des centres spécialisés dans les arts du spectacle‎^[2], Brussels: Peter Lang, →ISBN, pages 219–20:

     It’s very common in Irish to use a fada on a name, and we had to ensure that a name like Seán, for example should [be possible for] people [to] search [for] with or without the fada on “á”.

Anagrams

• ADFA

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfada/, [ˈfa.ð̞a]
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Noun

fada f (plural fades)

1. fairy

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfa.ða]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate, destiny told by the gods”). Compare French fée, Italian fata, Occitan and Portuguese fada, Spanish hada.

Noun

fada f (plural fades)

1. fairy

Etymology 2

Adjective

fada

1. feminine singular of fat

Further reading

• “fada” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.da/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Occitan fadatz.

Adjective

fada (feminine fadade, masculine plural fadas, feminine plural fadades)

1. (Meridional) crazy

   Synonym: fou

Noun

fada m or f by sense (plural fadas)

1. (Meridional) nutcase

   Synonym: fou

   Il est pas tranquille celui-là, c’est un fada !

   He's not calm, he's crazy!

   • 1998, “Sans Rémission”, in Si Dieu veut…, performed by Fonky Family:

     Je sème des rimes tant pis si j’passe pour un fada / Que je récolte nada, j’reste hip hop : soldat sans FAMAS / Se parque devant les liasses comme le reste de la populace

     I sow these rhymes so much I pass for a nutter / though I reap nada, I'm sticking with hip-hop: soldier without a rifle / parked before the stacks like the rest of the people

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fada

1. third-person singular past historic of fader

Further reading

• “fada”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”) (compare xa from Diana), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate, destiny told by the gods”). Cognate with French fée, Italian fata, Portuguese and Occitan fada, Spanish hada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaðɐ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Noun

fada f (plural fadas)

1. fairy

   Synonyms: xa, xan

2. fate, destiny
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 130:

     Et o conde normando, quando a uio fremosa, que mays nõ poderia seer hũa dõzella, dissolle entõ en poridade que auia grã querela della, por que tijna que era dona sem ventura et de maa fada, mays que quantas auia en seu logar et en seu linagẽ, poys que os castelaaos auiã rrecebudo tã grã pesar por ella.

     And the Norman count, when he saw that she was beauty, more than what any maiden could be, told her privately that he had a big trouble with here, because he considered that she was an unfortunate lady, and a jinx [lit. of bad fate], more than every woman in her place and her lineage, since the Castilian had received such large harm because of her

   • 1859, Manuel Fernández Magariños, Seor Pedro, section 7:

     Por necesidá a guerra é pasadeira, e eso solo porque ten orixen na fada, con que nacemos de senreirar uns contra outros

     because of necessity war is passable, and that just because it originates in the fate, with which we are born, of being hostile against each other

Derived terms

• enfadar
• fadar
• más fadas te faden

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

fada

1. inflection of fadar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fota, from Proto-Indo-European *wasdʰos (“long, wide”); compare Latin vastus (“wide”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑd̪ˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠad̪ˠə/

Adjective

fada (comparative faide or foide)

1. long
2. far

Declension

Declension of fada

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	fada	fhada	fada; fhada2
vocative	fhada		fada
genitive		fada	fada	fada
dative	fada; fhada1	fhada	fada; fhada2
Comparative	níos faide
Superlative	is faide

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

• Alternative comparative form: foide (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

• cóta fada
• fad-
• fadáil
• fadó
• síneadh fada
• sula fada

 

Related terms

• fad

Mutation

Mutated forms of fada

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fada	fhada	bhfada

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fada”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Maltese

Root
f-d-j (trust)
2 terms

Alternative forms

• afda

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian fidari, from Vulgar Latin *fīdāre, from Latin fīdere. Unrelated to native feda (“to redeem”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.da/

Verb

fada (imperfect jafda, past participle fdat, verbal noun fdar)

1. to trust
2. to entrust
3. to be careless

Conjugation

Conjugation of fada

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	fdajt	fdajt	fada		fdajna	fdajtu	fdaw
	f			fdat
imperfect	m	nafda	tafda	jafda		nafdaw	tafdaw	jafdaw
	f			tafda
imperative			afda				afdaw

Related terms

• fidi

 

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English father.

Noun

fada

1. father

Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate, destiny told by the gods”). Compare Catalan fada, French fée, Italian fata, Portuguese fada, Spanish hada.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Noun

fada f (plural fadas)

1. fairy

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese fada, from Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”).

Compare Galician, Catalan, and Occitan fada, Spanish hada, French fée and Italian fata.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.dɐ/

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

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

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Noun

fada f (plural fadas)

1. fairy

Derived terms

• conto de fadas
• fadinha

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fada

1. inflection of fadar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fota. Cognates include Irish fada and Manx foddey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfat̪ə/
• Hyphenation: fa‧da

Adjective

fada (comparative fhaide, qualitative noun fhaide)

1. long
2. far

Declension

Declension of fada (type IV adjective)

	masculine	feminine	plural
nominative	fada	fhada	fada
genitive	fhada	fada	fada
dative	fada	fhada	fada
vocative	fhada	fhada	fada

Derived terms

• anns an ùine fhada
• fadalach
• gunna fada

 

Adverb

fada

1. long

   Bha agam ri feitheamh fada ro fhada. ― I had to wait far too long.

2. far, much

   Bha agam ri feitheamh fada ro fhada. ― I had to wait far too long.

Derived terms

• fad is farsaing
• o chionn fhada

 

Related terms

• fad

Mutation

Mutation of fada

radical	lenition
fada	fhada

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Colin Mark (2003) “fada”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fota, fata”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Venetan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin fatum.

Noun

fada f

1. fairy

Yoruba

Etymology

From Hausa fādà (“palace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fá.dà/

Noun

fádà

1. A public display or performance, normally performed for a king in his court or palace

   wọ́n tẹ́ fádà ijó ― They put on a public display of dance