Ada

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪdə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə

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 number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama.
   2. A census-designated place in Ottawa County, Kansas.
   3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Kent County, Michigan.
   4. A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota.
   5. A township in Dickey County, North Dakota.
   6. A village in Hardin County, Ohio.
   7. A city, the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.
   8. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
   9. A township in Perkins County, South Dakota.
   10. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia.
   11. An unincorporated community in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.

• Ada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ada (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AAD, aad

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
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Ada f

1. a female given name

• Áďa

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Ada f

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

Ada m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Adam

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Middle Dutch?”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.daː/

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• Hyphenation: Ada

Ada f

1. a female given name

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

Ada (Szerbia)

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Àda / А̀да, from àda (“island, eyot”), from Ottoman Turkish آطه (ada).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: Ada
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Ada

1. Ada (a town and municipality of the North Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia)

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

Ada f (proper noun, genitive singular Ödu)

1. a female given name

Ādā

1. ablative singular of Ādām

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Namnet Ada

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Short for Germanic names beginning with Adel-, and also of Biblical Hebrew origin. Used as a given name in Norway since the 1850s.

Ada f (definite Ada)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

• 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.

Compare to Addo.

Ada f

1. a female given name

• Maurits Gysseling (1982) “Noordwesteuropese persoonsnaambestanddelen”, in Naamkunde. Jaargang 14‎ (in Dutch), page 86

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

From Germanic.

Ada f

1. a female given name

Clipping of Adrianna.

Ada f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Adrianna

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧da

Ada f

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

• IPA^(key): /ǎːda/

Áda f (Cyrillic spelling А́да)

1. (Croatia) a female given name

• “Ada”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

• IPA^(key): /áːda/

Áda f

1. a female given name

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• “Ada”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈada/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Ada f

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1762. Short form of names like Adela, and of biblical Hebrew origin.

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Ada c (genitive Adas)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

• 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.