hada

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hada

1. genitive/accusative singular of had

Hungarian

Etymology

had +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ha‧da

Noun

hada

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of had

Declension

Japanese

Romanization

hada

1. Rōmaji transcription of はだ

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hada

1. genitive/accusative singular of had

Spanish

Alternative forms

• fada (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier fada, from Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan fada, Occitan fada, Portuguese fada, French fée, Italian fata.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hada f (plural hadas)

1. fairy
   • 1973, “Un Hada, un Cisne”, in Confesiones de Invierno, performed by Sui Generis:

     Un hada se miraba
     En el lago en la mañana
     Sus lágrimas caían
     Y su imagen destruía

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (obsolete) one of the Fates

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el hada, un hada

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Hyponyms

• hada madrina (charactonym)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Hiligaynon: ada
• → Tagalog: ada

Further reading

• “hada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014