abada
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English
Etymology
From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from Malay badak (“rhinoceros”).
Noun
abada (plural abadas)
- (obsolete) The rhinoceros.
- (mythology) A herbivorous mythological creature of the Central African Congo, similar to the unicorn. Its horns are said to be an antidote to poisons, and it has brown fur, two crooked horns and a boar's tail.
- 1864, William Winwood Reade, Savage Africa, page 373:
- It is certain that the unicorn is not to be confounded with the abada, about which they usually dispute; this one may see by the difference of their names, as well as by the difference of their body and parts […]
Anagrams
Bambara
Etymology
From Arabic أَبَد (ʔabad, “eternity”).
Noun
abada
Adverb
abada
French
Pronunciation
Verb
abada
- third-person singular past historic of abader
Fula
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic أَبَدًا (ʔabadan).
Adverb
abada
Usage notes
Galician
Etymology
From aba (“apron”) + -ada (“~ful”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abada f (plural abadas)
Related terms
References
- “abada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “abada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “abada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “abada”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Hausa
Etymology
From Arabic أَبَدًا (ʔabadan).
Pronunciation
Adverb
àbàdâ
Ibaloi
Noun
abada
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from a bada (“the rhinoceros”), with concretion of the definite article.
Pronunciation
Noun
abada m or f by sense (masculine plural abadi, feminine plural abade)
- Alternative form of bada (“rhinoceros”)
Moore
Etymology
From Arabic أَبَدًا (ʔabadan).
Adverb
abada
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧ba‧da
Noun
abada f (plural abadas)
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese abada, from Malay badak.
Pronunciation
Noun
abada f (plural abadas)
- (obsolete) rhinoceros
- Synonym: rinoceronte
Further reading
- “abada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
Noun
abada
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