abada

From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from Malay badak (“rhinoceros”).

abada (plural abadas)

1. (obsolete) The rhinoceros.
2. (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 […]

• baaad

From Arabic أَبَد‎ (ʾabad, “eternity”).

abada

1. eternity

abada

1. always, forever

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• Homophones: abadas, abadât

abada

1. third-person singular past historic of abader

• abadan

From Arabic أَبَدًا‎ (ʾabadan).

abada

1. never

• Used in Western Niger Fulfulde.
• faa abada means forever.

From aba (“apron”) +‎ -ada (“~ful”).

• IPA^(key): [aˈβaða̝]

abada f (plural abadas)

1. apronful, quantity contained in a apron or in the folds of a shirt

• aba

• “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, Royal Galician Academy.

From Arabic أَبَدًا‎ (ʾabadan).

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.bà.dâː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.bə̀.dâː]

àbàdâ

1. always

abada

1. (anatomy) shoulder

Borrowed from Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from a bada (“the rhinoceros”), with concretion of the definite article.

• IPA^(key): /aˈba.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: a‧bà‧da

abada m or f by sense (masculine plural abadi, feminine plural abade)

1. Alternative form of bada (“rhinoceros”)

From Arabic أَبَدًا‎ (ʾabadan).

abada

1. never

From a- +‎ bada.

abada f (plural abadas)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of bada (“rhinoceros”)

• → English: abada
• → Italian: abada
• → Spanish: abada

Borrowed from Portuguese abada, from Malay badak.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbada/ [aˈβ̞a.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧da

abada f (plural abadas)

1. (obsolete) rhinoceros

   Synonym: rinoceronte

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

abada

1. locative singular of aba