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 (ʔabad, “eternity”).

abada

1. eternity

abada

1. always, forever

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.da/

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• Homophones: abadas, abadât

abada

1. third-person singular past historic of abader

• abadan

From Arabic أَبَدًا (ʔabadan).

abada (Western Niger Fulfulde)

1. never

• faa abada (“forever”)

From aba (“apron”) +‎ -ada (“~ful”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈbada/ [aˈβ̞a.ð̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧da

abada f (plural abadas)

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

• aba

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “abada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “abada”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “abada”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Arabic أَبَدًا (ʔabadan).

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

àbàdâ

1. always

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qabaʀa, from Proto-Austronesian *qabaʀa.

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 (ʔabadan).

abada

1. never

From a- +‎ bada.

• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧da

abada f (plural abadas)

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

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

• “abada”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “abada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Portuguese abada, from Malay badak.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbada/ [aˈβ̞a.ð̞a]

• Audio (Spain):

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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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

abada

1. locative singular of aba