Vanda

New Latin, from Sanskrit वन्दाक (vandāka), वन्दाका (vandākā, “Vanda tesselata”)

Vanda f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Orchidaceae – prized for its flowers, considered to be the most highly evolved of all orchids.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades; Asparagales – order; Orchidaceae – family; Epidendroideae - subfamily; Vandeae - tribe; Aeridinae - subtribe

• (genus): Vanda tesselata - type species; for other species see Vanda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Vanda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vanda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vanda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vanda at USDA Plants database
• Vanda at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Vanda at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Vanda at Tropicos

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Vanda

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Borrowed from Polish Wanda.

• IPA^(key):

Vanda f

1. a female given name

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From Polish Wanda.

Vanda f

1. a female given name

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Vanda was the only given name of 1676 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Vanda f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈvanda/

Vanda f (genitive singular Vandy, nominative plural Vandy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• “Vanda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /vanːda/

From Polish Wanda.

Vanda c (genitive Vandas)

1. a female given name

Vanda n (genitive Vandas)

1. Vantaa (a city in Finland)

• davna, vadan