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da

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of da in English

English Online Dictionary. What means da‎? What does da mean?

Translingual

Symbol

(metrology) Symbol for the prefix deca-, indicating multiplication by 10

English

Pronunciation

(UK, Article) IPA^(key): /də/, /dæ/
(UK, Noun) IPA^(key): /dɑː/

Etymology 1

From child language; compare dad and dada.

Noun

da (plural das)

(Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) Father.

Synonyms

pa, Pa
daddy

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Russian да (da, “yes”).

Noun

da (uncountable)

(slang, Russianism) Yes; an affirmative response.

Interjection

(slang, Russianism) Yes.

Antonyms

nyet

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:da.

Etymology 3

Representing pronunciation of the in informal speech.

Article

Pronunciation spelling of the.

Usage notes

Commonly used to represent the pronunciation of various second-language varieties of English where the first language of the speaker does not contain the phoneme /ð/.
In the US, especially common in representations of speakers from Chicago and New York.

Etymology 4

Imitative.

Interjection

A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
You know that tune that goes "da da da di-dum di-dum"?

Anagrams

'ad, -ad, A.D., AD, ad, ad-, ad.

Aiwoo

Verb

to swim, drift, float

References

Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Bambara

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [dáà]

Noun

(anatomy) mouth, orifice
door, doorway

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

plant that is source of kenaf fiber (Hibiscus cannabinus)
Synonym: daba
roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
Synonym: dabilen

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
2003. Moussa Diaby (République du Mali, Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale), Léxique de base : Bamanankan - Français, Fondation Karanta.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Verb

Third-person singular (hura) present indicative form of izan; he/she/it is

Breton

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *tu (“to”).

Preposition

da (requires soft mutation)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *tū (“your, thy”).

Pronoun

da (requires soft mutation)

your sg

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Initial clipping of ada.

Pronunciation 1

(General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /dæ/
Rhymes: -dæ

Interjection

It's unimportant.

Etymology 2

Undetermined

Pronunciation 2

(General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ/
Rhymes: -dɑ

Interjection

(idiomatic) serves you right
(idiomatic) good for you

Synonyms

mayra, mirisi

Cimbrian

Etymology

Cognate with German da; see there for more.

Adverb

(Sette Comuni) there

References

“da” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin de ab. Compare Italian da.

Preposition

from
of

Danish

Adverb

surely
then

Conjunction

when (referring to finished events)
as, at the same time as
because
Da hun er mindreårig kan hun ikke idømmes fængsel.
As she is underage, she cannot be sentenced to prison.

Synonyms

(because): fordi

Dena'ina

Conjunction

when
if

Adverb

there

Esperanto

Etymology

From French de, Italian di, altered to differenciate de.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Preposition

Of (used instead of de with quantities, to emphasize the quantity rather than the thing quantified, or to indicate the unity of a shape and its material, a container and its contents, or a group and its members)

Usage notes

Unlike most prepositions, da cannot occur after a verb. It necessarily links two nouns.

The article la does not occur after the preposition da, and this is often mistakenly understood to mean that the quantity introduced by da must be indefinite. However, there is no such restriction, any more than there is with possessive pronouns such as mia 'my', which also do not allow the article. Because of the unity of the two nouns linked by da, only the phrase can be modified by the article, so it must precede the first noun. See the fourth and fifth examples above.

Some Esperanto dictionaries substitute listo de and tuto de for listo da and tuto da. This is an error, an influence of Western languages which do not have an equivalent to da.

Compare these:

(a boxful of chocolate)
(the box itself, made for chocolates, but now perhaps used to store paper clips)

which indicates the kind of spring rather than the quantity of tears. Even dry eyes could be said to be fonto de larmoj 'a source of tears',, fonto da larmoj indicates that they are tear-filled eyes.

References

Ewe

Noun

bow
mother
snake

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese da, from de + a.

Preposition

da f (plural das, masculine do, masculine plural dos)

contraction of de (“of”) + a (“the”)

Farefare

Pronunciation

/dà/

Etymology

Compare Moore ra (“to buy”)

Verb

da (imperfect da'arɩ, da'ara)

to buy

Galician

Etymology

From contraction of preposition de (“of, from”) + feminine definite article a (“the”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d̪ɐ/

Contraction

da f (masculine do, masculine plural dos, feminine plural das)

of the; from the

German

Etymology

From a merger of three interrelated adverbs: 1.) Middle High German dā, dār (“there, at that place”), from Old High German thār, dār, from Proto-Germanic *þar. 2.) Middle High German dar, dare (“thither, to that place”), from Old High German thara, dara, from an extended form of the former. 3.) Middle High German dō, duo (“then, at that time”), from Old High German thō, dō, duo, from Proto-Germanic *þō.

The three forms were already sometimes intermingled in Old and Middle High German. The eventual loss of the distinction in modern German was reinforced by phonetic mergers in various dialects. Today, the senses of adverbs 1 and 3 are covered by da, while adverb 2 has been chiefly replaced with hin, dahin. The form dar- remains as a variant of da- before vowels and in some compound verbs (like darlegen, darbringen). Adverb 1 and 2 are cognate with Dutch daar, English there, Swedish där. Adverb 3 is cognate with Dutch toen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daː/, [däː]
Rhymes: -aː

Adverb

(local) there; here
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 78:
  Am liebsten entfloh sie dem allem in den großen Garten. Da verbrachte sie ihre schönsten Stunden.
  She liked best to escape from all of that into the big garden. There she spent her most pleasant hours.
Wir fahren nach Hamburg. Meine Frau hat eine Freundin, die da wohnt.
We’re going to Hamburg. My wife has a friend who lives there.

Die Gäste sind noch nicht da.
The guests aren’t here yet.
(temporal) then; so; at that moment
Ich war gerade eingeschlafen, und da kam ein Anruf.
I had just fallen asleep, and that’s when someone called.

Er hat immer weiter auf mich eingeschrien. Da bin ich einfach gegangen.
He just kept on shouting at me. So I just left.
(colloquial) replaces any pronominal adverb when the context is clear
Ich wollte eigentlich Linsensuppe machen, aber da (= dafür, dazu) hatte ich das Rezept nicht.
I was actually going to make lentil soup, but I didn’t have the recipe for it.

Wir haben jetzt ein Angebot gekriegt, aber da (= darüber) müssen wir noch diskutieren.
We’ve now received an offer, but we’ll still need to have discussion about that.

Synonyms

(there): dort
(then): also; dann

Derived terms

ebenda

Related terms

allda

Conjunction

since; as; because; given that
- 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 51:
  Und da er keinen Grund hatte, ihr seinen Namen zu verhehlen, so stellte er sich in aller Form vor.
  And because he had no reason to conceal his name from her, he introduced himself in all due form.
(literary, dated) when
- 1545, Martin Luther et al., Genesis 7:6:
  Er war aber sechshundert jar alt / da das wasser der Sindflut auff Erden kam.
  He was six hundred years old however, when the water of the deluge came upon Earth.

Usage notes

In the first sense (since, as, because), da is almost always in the first clause of the sentence.

Synonyms

(since): weil; zumal
(when): als; wenn; wo

Grass Koiari

Pronoun

References

Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese dar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu da.

Verb

to give

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian da.

Preposition

by
La genitori amesas da lia filii.
The parents are loved by their children.

Related terms

di (“of (indicates possession or association)”)
de (“from, of (where an amount is indicated)”)

Interlingua

Verb

present of dar
imperative of dar

Italian

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

From Latin dē (“of, from”) + a/ab (“of, from”). In the meaning of “at, near, by”, da probably comes from Latin unde + ad.

Preposition

from (all senses)
Used to indicate the house, place, or establishment of; at or to + -'s
since; from
to (implying necessity)
like, as
by
1. Used to indicate causation.
2. Used to indicate the means by which.
enough to
Used to express a quality or characteristic of.
Used to indicate a limitation of.
Used to indicate a price, measure, or value of; worth
Used to indicate a scope, purpose, or goal of; used to/for; in/with which to
Used in some adverbial phrases.

Usage notes

When followed by the definite article, da combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:

Etymology 2

Verb

Misspelling of dà.

References

Anagrams

ad, AD

Japanese

Romanization

Rōmaji transcription of だ
Rōmaji transcription of ダ

Jurchen

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic [Term?]. Cognate with Manchu ᡩᠠ (da) etc.

Numeral

da (Jurchen script: , Image: )

head
root

Descendants

Manchu: ᡩᠠ (da)

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese dar.

Verb

to give

Kirikiri

Noun

water

Koitabu

Pronoun

References

Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Ladin

Preposition

from
At the house of
to (implying necessity)

Derived terms

dal
dala
dai
dales

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dan ~ daj (“single, one, whole, only”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Numeral

References

Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis).

Latin

Verb

dā

second-person singular present active imperative of dō "give!"

Ligurian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Etymology 1

From Latin dē ab.

Preposition

from

Etymology 2

de (“of, from”, preposition) + a (“the (fem. sing.)”, article)

Contraction

da (followed by a singular feminine noun)

of the
from the

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Verb

second/third-person singular preterite of daś

Mandarin

Romanization

da (Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄚ)

Pinyin transcription of 墰
Pinyin transcription of 疶
Pinyin transcription of 繨
Pinyin transcription of 跴
Pinyin transcription of 蹽
Pinyin transcription of 墶, 垯
Nonstandard spelling of dā.
Nonstandard spelling of dá.
Nonstandard spelling of dǎ.
Nonstandard spelling of dà.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish do.

Preposition

Inflection

Pronoun

third-person singular masculine of da
to him/it

Derived terms

dasyn (emphatic)

Marshallese

Etymology

From Proto-Micronesian *caa, from Proto-Oceanic *draʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

Pronunciation

(phonetic) IPA^(key): [rʲɑ]
(phonemic) IPA^(key): /rʲæɰ/
Bender phonemes:

Noun

blood

References

Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mountain Koiari

Pronoun

References

Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Navajo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adverb

(used with doo) not

Conjunction

including, as well as, and

Nobonob

Pronoun

I, first-person singular pronoun

North Frisian

Article

the (plural)

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɑː

Conjunction

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þá and þó (adverb); and Old Norse þá er (when, conjunction), and German da (because, conjunction)

Adverb

then

Derived terms

datid

Conjunction

when
because

References

“da” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse þá and þó (adverb); and Old Norse þá er (“when”, conjunction), and German da (“because”, conjunction)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɑː/ (example of pronunciation)

Adverb

then

Derived terms

datid

Conjunction

when
because

References

“da” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Nyunga

Noun

mouth

References

2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.

Ojibwe

Particle

please, come on (clarification marker)
da naa! — damn it!

Related terms

daga

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɑː/

Noun

dā f

doe, female fallow deer

Declension

Descendants

Middle English: da, do, doo
- Scots: da, dae
- English: doe

Pite Sami

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ta/

Pronoun

these, those

References

Joshua Wilbur (2014) A grammar of Pite Saami, Berlin: Language Science Press

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Verb

third-person singular future indicative of dać

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese da, from de (“of”) + a (“feminine definite article”).

Alternative forms

d'a (dated)

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɐ/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /da/
Hyphenation: da

Preposition

da f sg (plural das, masculine do, masculine plural dos)

Contraction of de a (“pertaining or relating to the”). Of the; from the (feminine singular)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:do.

Etymology 2

Verb

Obsolete spelling of dá
- 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam:
  [...], com que cada día nos da noticia de outras tão nouas que parece que a excedem, […]
  [...], with which he gives us each day news of other [marvels] so new that they seem to exceed it, […]

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/
Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language (e.g. Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian; or rather a loan from a Common Slavic before the emergence of distinct modern languages), from Proto-Slavic *da. Cf. also the word's presence in other non-Slavic tongues such as Albanian da, Greek δά (dá), although very rarely used.

Another less likely (and controversial) theory argues that, being such a common and basic word, a borrowing seems unusual (even considering slang) and it perhaps derived originally from the Latin ita, one of several ways to say "thus", "so" or "yes"; it further may have been influenced by the da, also meaning "yes", in the surrounding Slavic languages before reaching its present state (see Sprachbund). See also dacă, which according to this theory derives from ita quod. In some regions, ta is used repeatedly to indicate impatience with someone talking too much or aimlessly, although this is more likely onomatopoetic in origin. Nonetheless, Romanian etymological dictionaries derive da from a Slavic language, which is almost certainly the primary source.

Interjection

Antonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, ultimately from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”). Compare Aromanian dau, dari, Italian dare, Spanish dar.

Verb

a da (third-person singular present dă, past participle dat) 1st conj.

to give

Conjugation

Derived terms

dare

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

(before vowels) dad

Etymology

From Latin dē.

Preposition

of, from
about

Scottish Gaelic

Prepositional pronoun

Alternative form of dha

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *da, probably old imperative of the word dȁti, itself from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).

Conjunction

da (Cyrillic spelling да)

that
to, so, so that, in order to
to (when the subjects of both clauses are not the same)
(Serbian) to (when the subjects of both clauses are the same; for western Serbo-Croatian use infinitive instead of da + present tense)
(subjunctive only, often followed by i) if, even if (= kad)
(usually preceded by kȁo) as if, as though, like
(usually preceded by a) without (after negative verbs)
(archaic, literary, religious) lest

Usage notes

As a conjunction with the sense of "if", da, just like synonymous kad, is only used in subjunctive mood, to express what one wishes were the case or hypothetical situations contrary to reality in general. For all other uses, ako is used instead.

Particle

da (Cyrillic spelling да)

yes
(Serbia) used when starting a question
Used in various phrases, expressing wishes, commands etc.

Synonyms

(when starting a question): je li (Croatian, Serbian)

Skolt Sami

Etymology

Presumably loaned from a Russian language (compare with Russian да (da)) or from Proto-Slavic *da.

Conjunction

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *da.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dá/

Particle

dȁ

yes
Synonym: jā (informal)

Antonym: nȅ

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈda/, [ˈd̪a]

Verb

Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of dar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of dar.
Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar.

Swedish

Noun

da c

Eye dialect spelling of dag.

Declension

Anagrams

Tause

Verb

Ter Sami

Etymology

Presumably loaned from a Russian language (compare with Russian да (da)) or from Proto-Slavic *da.

Conjunction

Tolai

Alternative forms

dat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

First-person inclusive plural pronoun: you (many) and I, you (many) and me

Declension

Turkish

Adverb

as well, too, also

Usage notes

It's used when the previous word's last vowel is "a", "ı", "o" or "u". Otherwise (if the word's last vowel is "e", "i", "ö" or "ü"); it becomes "de"

Synonyms

Uzbek

Particle

da (Cyrillic spelling да)

Locative case marker. It is used to show the time or the place of an action. Equates to "in", or "at" in English.

Usage notes

When used after interrogative pronouns da can take on different meanings. Pronouns such as kim (“who”), nima (“what”), qayer (“where”), necha (“how many, how much”) become kimda (“to whom”), nimada (“with what, by using what”), qayerda (“from where”), nechada (“what time”).

Vanimo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Noun

References

Dialogue on Dialect Standardization, edited by Carrie Dyck, Tania Granadillo, Keren Rice

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian да (da).

Conjunction

References

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “да, и”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-taː; compare North Central Vietnamese đa.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaː˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jaː˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaː˧˧]

Noun

da • (𤿦, 𪤻, 𪾉)

(anatomy) skin (outer covering of the body)
hide; material made of animal skin, such as leather

Derived terms

Volapük

Preposition

through
throughout

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”) (compare Irish dea-).

Adjective

da (feminine singular da, plural da, equative cystal, comparative gwell, superlative gorau)

good, well

Derived terms

iechyd da (“cheers”)

Noun

da m (uncountable)

goodness
(collective noun) goods, cattle

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

deuaf (literary)
do (colloquial)
dof (literary)

Verb

(colloquial) first-person singular future of dod

Mutation

Western Sisaala

Noun

stick

References

Steven Paul Moran, A grammatical sketch of Isaalo (Western Sisaala) (2006)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse *dái, akrdái (accusative á); related to daan and döij.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /doː/, /dɒː/, /dɑː/
Rhymes: -óː

Noun

da m (definite dan, dative daåm)

Species Galeopsis and Lamium.

Derived terms

da-skaall

Zhuang

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ta˨˦/
Tone numbers: da¹
Hyphenation: da

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). Cognate with Thai ตา (dtaa), Northern Thai ᨲᩣ, Lao ຕາ (tā), Lü ᦎᦱ (ṫaa), Tai Dam ꪔꪱ, Shan တႃ (tǎa), Aiton တႃ, Ahom 𑜄𑜠 (ta) or 𑜄𑜡 (taa), Bouyei dal. Compare Old Chinese 睹 (OC *taːʔ, “to see”).

Noun

da (Sawndip forms 𥅂, 𭾚, 𠯈, 他, 哆, 打, old orthography da)

eye
judgment; eye
joint; knot; node (in a stem or branch of a plant)

Classifier

da (old orthography da)

section of (a stem, demarcated by nodes in the stem)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *taːᴬ (“maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Thai ตา (dtaa), Lao ຕາ (tā), Lü ᦎᦱ (ṫaa), Shan တႃ (tǎa), Bouyei dal.

Noun

da (Sawndip forms 𭖯, 㐲, 他, 她, 大, old orthography da)

maternal grandfather
Synonym: goengda
father-in-law