zeda

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See also: žeđa

English

Noun

zeda (plural zedas)

  1. Alternative spelling of zayde
    • 1899, Mary J. McKenna, Our Brethren of the Tenements and the Ghetto, page 18:
      The old men who came to our door I was taught to call "Zeda," or grandfather, and the old women I called "Babba," or grandmother, and to them I always gave a double share.
    • 1999, Paul Mazursky, Show Me the Magic:
      ... grandfather often told me stories about his life in Kiev. I would sit at the kitchen table with Zeda, as I called him (Yiddish for grandpa), sipping hot tea from a saucer and sucking on a cube of sugar.