different between vaca vs vada

English

Alternative forms

• vacay

Etymology

a clipping of vacation (informal, US)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?.ke?/

Noun

vaca (plural vacas)

1. vacation.

Synonyms

• leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus:vacation

Anagrams

• AACV, Cava, cava

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?va.k?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ba.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?va.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

Further reading

• “vaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vaca” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• baka, vacca, baca, bacca

Etymology

From Latin vacca (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?. Compare Italian vacca, Spanish vaca.

Noun

vaca f

1. cow

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bak?/, (in sandhi) [??ak?]

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow
2. (fishing) trawler

Derived terms

See also

• almallo
• becerro
• boi
• touro
• xato

References

• “vaca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Verb

vaca

1. inflection of vacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• cava

Latgalian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vat?sa/

Adjective

vaca f

1. old

Latin

Verb

vac?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vac?

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (vaca).

Noun

vaca m or n

1. word, saying

Declension

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vaka/

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?va.k?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?va.k?/, [?vä.k?]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: va?ca

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow
2. (derogatory, slang) a promiscuous woman; bitch

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: báka
• Papiamentu: baka
• ? Kadiwéu: waaca

See also

• boi
• touro
• bezerro
• vitelo
• novilho

Etymology 2

Verb

vaca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of vacar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of vacar

References

• “vaca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “vaca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Romanian

Noun

vaca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of vac?

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from the Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baka/, [?ba.ka]
• Hyphenation: va?ca

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
2. beef

   Synonyms: vacuno, res

3. leather

   Synonym: cuero de vaca

4. (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
5. (Chile) collection

   Synonym: recaudación

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• becerro
• ganado
• santa vaca
• ternero
• toro
• vacuno

Anagrams

• cava

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi ???? (va??).

Noun

vada (plural vadas)

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

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

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• varder

Verb

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

1. (Polari) To look (at), to see
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vada.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:look

References

See also

• vada pav

Anagrams

• Dava

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

vada f (plural vadas)

1. strike (work stoppage)

Derived terms

• vada cheneral

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal of vadit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?vada]

Noun

vada f

1. defect

Declension

Related terms

• vadný
• závada

See also

• kaz
• nedostatek
• defekt

Further reading

• vada in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• vada in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Verb

vada

1. third-person singular past historic of vader

Italian

Verb

vada

1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of andare
2. third-person singular imperative of andare

Anagrams

• dava

Latin

Verb

vad?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vad?

Noun

vada

1. nominative plural of vadum
2. accusative plural of vadum
3. vocative plural of vadum

References

• vada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vada in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Latvian

Noun

vada m

1. genitive singular form of vads

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadan?.

Alternative forms

• va (short form)
• vade (long form with e infinitive)

Verb

vada (present tense vader, past tense vadde, supine vadd or vadt, past participle vadd, present participle vadande)

1. (intransitive) to wade
2. (intransitive, chiefly about fish) swim at the surface

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

vada n

1. definite plural of vad
2. definite plural of vad

References

• “vada” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• dava

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

vada

1. second-person singular imperative active of vadati (“to say”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish vaþa, from Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadan?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh?d?-.

Verb

vada (present vadar, preterite vadade, supine vadat, imperative vada)

1. to wade; to walk through (deep) water
2. (generalized) to walk through anything which hampers one's progress

Conjugation

See also

• vadare
• vadarfågel

Anagrams

• avad