zaida
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English
Noun
zaida (plural zaidas)
- Alternative spelling of zayde
- 2015 September 22, Dan Burt, You Think It Strange: A Memoir, ABRAMS, →ISBN:
- But while Zaida was alive we always went for Seder dinner on the first night of Pesach, the Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.
- 2018 February 28, Samantha Baskind, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 18:
- The great Rav Akiba showed us, didn't he, Zaida [grandfather in Yiddish]?
- 2022 October 7, Dan Burt, Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré’s Memoir, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- Zaida's father, my great-grandfather, was pious and reputed to be a melamed, a learned though poor Orthodox Jew.
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida, “lady”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaida/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsaida/
- Rhymes: -aida
- Syllabification: zai‧da
Noun
zaida f (plural zaidas)
Further reading
- “zaida”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10