vada

Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).

vada (plural vadas)

1. A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 204:

     I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.

Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)[1]

• varder

vada (third-person singular simple present vadas, present participle vadaing, simple past and past participle vada'd)

1. (Polari) To look (at), to see
   • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:

     "The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession^[sic] generally use. […] "'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window.

   • 1967, Kenneth Williams as Sandy, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman:

     You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.

   • 2015 October 12, Lowe, Adam, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎:

     Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:vada.

• See Thesaurus:look

• vada pav

vada f (plural vadas)

1. strike (work stoppage)

• vada cheneral

vada f

1. defect

• vadný
• závada

• kaz
• nedostatek
• defekt

• vada in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• vada in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

vada

1. third-person singular past historic of vader

vada

1. first-person singular, second-person singular, and third-person singular present subjunctive of andare
2. third-person singular imperative of andare

• dava

vadā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of vadō

vada

1. nominative plural of vadum
2. accusative plural of vadum
3. vocative plural of vadum

• vada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vada in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

vada m

1. genitive singular form of vads

vada (past vadad, active participle vadant, passive participle vadat)

1. to go

• veni

From Old Swedish vaþa, from Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-.

vada (present vadar, preterite vadade, supine vadat, imperative vada)

1. to wade; to walk through (deep) water
2. (generalized) to walk through anything which hampers one's progress

• vadare
• vadarfågel