zaida

See also: Zaida

English

Noun

zaida (plural zaidas)

1. Alternative spelling of zayde
   • 2015 September 22, Dan Burt, You Think It Strange: A Memoir, ABRAMS, →ISBN:

     But while Zaida was alive we always went for Seder dinner on the first night of Pesach, the Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.

   • 2018 February 28, Samantha Baskind, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 18:

     The great Rav Akiba showed us, didn't he, Zaida [grandfather in Yiddish]?

   • 2022 October 7, Dan Burt, Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré’s Memoir, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     Zaida's father, my great-grandfather, was pious and reputed to be a melamed, a learned though poor Orthodox Jew.

Spanish

Demoiselle crane

Etymology

From Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida, “lady”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθaida/ [ˈθai̯.ð̞a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsaida/ [ˈsai̯.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -aida
• Syllabification: zai‧da

Noun

zaida f (plural zaidas)

1. demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo

   Synonym: grulla damisela

Further reading

• “zaida”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28