mada

• IPA^(key):

mada m anim

1. racket-tail
2. any parrot of genus Tanygnathus

mada

1. inflection of mataa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• manda, meada

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãada, from Latin manuata (“a handful”).^[1] Cognate with Spanish manada and Italian manata.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaða̝/

mada f (plural madas)

1. handful, fistful

   Synonyms: manchea, presa

2. bundle; sheaf

   Synonyms: feixe, maínzo, mollo

3. pack; herd

   Synonyms: fato, grei, rabaño

4. school, shoal

   Synonym: cardume

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “manda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ma‧da

mada

1. nonstandard spelling of madar (“mad, heartless”).

mada m (genitive singular mada, nominative plural madaí)

1. Alternative form of madadh (“dog”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mada”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

mada

1. Rōmaji transcription of まだ

Borrowed from Sanskrit मद (mada, “intoxication”).

• IPA^(key): /mada/

mada

1. intoxication, infatuation, rage
2. intoxicating drink

mada

1. intoxicated, infatuated, enraged, conceited.

mada m

1. intoxication
2. infatuation; obsession
3. conceit; self-importance

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from German Mud, from Middle Low German mudde. Per Trubachyov inherited from Proto-Slavic *mada, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: ma‧da

mada f (related adjective madowy)

1. (geology) alluvial soil
2. (colloquial, rail transport) mixture of wet leaves or other materials and substances of natural origin deposited on railway or tram rails, which makes the track surface very slippery

• mada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*mada”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 118
• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “mada”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207

mada m

1. Alternative form of madadh

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mada”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

mada (Cyrillic spelling мада)

1. although
2. albeit

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji mada, Hadiyya mada and Oromo madaa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmada/
• Hyphenation: ma‧da

mada f 

1. wound, sore

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “mada”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

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Borrowed from Arabic .

mada (n class, plural mada)

1. topic, theme, subject

Borrowed from English murder.^[1]

-mada (infinitive kumada)

1. (Sheng) to murder or finish

Cognate with Ternate mada, Tidore moda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.d̪a/

mada

1. (informal) the mouth

   Synonym: pasul (polite)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

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mada (possessed madadü)

1. foliage, plant(s), herbs in general
2. herb(s) used for magical purposes, especially the kind of wild elephant ear plant called woi

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “mada”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 35, 57–58, 62, 63, 79, 108, 128, 227, 240, 244: “maada”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 220: “maada”
• Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 30, 32, 99–101, 112–113, 121, 128, 157, 172, 174, 176–178, 180, 190, 193–194, 200, etc.: “mada”