vadaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).

名詞

vada (plural vadas)

1. A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 204:

     I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.

語源 2

Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)

別の表記

• varder

動詞

vada (third-person singular simple present vadas, present participle vadaing, simple past and past participle vadaed or vada'd)

1. (Polari) To look (at), to see.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:

     […] "The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession generally use. […]
     "'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window. […] "

   • 1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):

     You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.

   • 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎:

     Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vada.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:look

参照

参考

• batata vada
• vada pav

アナグラム

• Dava

名詞

vada

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vadum

参照

• "vada", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vada”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly