zeda

zeda (plural zedas)

1. Alternative spelling of zayde.
   • 1899, Mary J. McKenna, Our Brethren of the Tenements and the Ghetto, page 18:

     The old men who came to our door I was taught to call "Zeda," or grandfather, and the old women I called "Babba," or grandmother, and to them I always gave a double share.

   • 1999, Paul Mazursky, Show Me the Magic:

     ... grandfather often told me stories about his life in Kiev. I would sit at the kitchen table with Zeda, as I called him (Yiddish for grandpa), sipping hot tea from a saucer and sucking on a cube of sugar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeda/ [ˈθe.ð̞a] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈseda/ [ˈse.ð̞a] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Syllabification: ze‧da
• IPA^(key): /ˈtseda/ [ˈt̪se.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -eda

zeda f (plural zedas)

1. (uncommon) synonym of zeta (“zed, zee”)

• “zeda”, 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