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)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Czech

Alternative forms

• Áďa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-

Declension

Proper noun

Ada m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Adam

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.daː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ada

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ada f

1. a female given name

Declension

Latin

Proper noun

Ādā

1. ablative singular of Ādām

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Namnet Ada

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧da

Proper noun

Ada f

1. (biblical) Adah (wife of Lamech)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈada/
• 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
• Statistiska centralbyrån: 999 females with the given name Ada living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on March 29th 2011.