adda

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See also: Adda and addà

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali আড্ডা (aḍḍa).

Noun

adda (plural addas)

  1. (Bangladesh, India) An informal meeting place for conversation.
  2. (Bangladesh, India) A session of chat.

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adˈda/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧da

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic عَدّ (ʕadd).

Noun

addá f (plural addoodí f)

  1. time, occasion
  2. turn, move
Declension
Declension of addá
absolutive addá
predicative addá
subjective addá
genitive addá
Postpositioned forms
l-case addál
k-case addák
t-case addát
h-case addáh

Postposition

addá

  1. (mathematics) times

Etymology 2

Cognates include Saho addá.

Adverb

addá

  1. low
  2. inside

Noun

addá f 

  1. depth
  2. interior, inside
Declension
Declension of addá
absolutive addá
predicative addá
subjective addá
genitive addá
Postpositioned forms
l-case addál
k-case addák
t-case addát
h-case addáh

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 31
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Azerbaijani

Noun

adda

  1. locative singular of ad

Icelandic

Etymology

From English add.

Pronunciation

Verb

adda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative addaði, supine addað)

  1. (Internet slang, transitive, with dative) to add (a person to one’s contact list or friend list, on social networking sites, messaging services, etc.)

Conjugation

Ilocano

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ad‧da
  • IPA(key): /adˈda/,

Verb

addá

  1. to have

Oromo

Noun

adda

  1. forehead

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit आर्द्र (ārdra).

Adjective

adda

  1. moist
  2. green

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of moist): sukkha

Sumerian

Romanization

adda

  1. Romanization of 𒇿 (adda)
  2. Romanization of 𒇽𒁁 (adda(LU₂.BAD))

Turkish

Noun

adda

  1. locative singular of ad