name
Meaning 1
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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Standard Lemma guide
rada
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name
Meaning 2
A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Ukrainian female given name Ра́да (Ráda)
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name
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of rada.
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Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 4
A parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries.
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Topics: government, politics
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noun
Meaning 5
A soviet, a form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
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noun
Meaning 6
In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Dahomeyan origin, chiefly associated with warmth and benevolence.
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Usage: uncountable
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History
Etymology
After the personal name (Rada Dany) of a prominent local family.
Feminine form of dialectal Bulgarian and Ukrainian рад (rad, “glad, thankful”), from Proto-Slavic *radъ.
Alternative forms.
Borrowed from Polish rada, from Middle High German rât. Compare German Rat, Icelandic ráð and Dutch raad. Doublet of rede.
Apparently a local form of Arada (now Allada), a city in ancient Dahomey.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ռադա (ṙada) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Azerbaijani: rada — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Belarusian: ра́да (ráda) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Chinese Mandarin: 拉達 /拉达 (lādá) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Czech: rada — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Danish: rada — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Georgian: რადა (rada) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- German: Rada — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Greek: Ράδα (Ráda) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Greek: ράδα (ráda) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Japanese: ラーダ (rāda) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Korean: 라다 (rada) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Polish: rada — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Russian: ра́да (ráda) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Russian: сове́т (sovét) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Slovak: rada — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
- Ukrainian: ра́да (ráda) — a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries