Lada

See also: lada, ladą, lađa, laða, láda, läda, låda, łada, and Láďa

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Lada

Lada (plural Ladas)

1. A female given name from Czech.
2. A surname.
3. an alleged Slavic goddess of love and beauty.
4. A make of car, produced by the Soviet/Russian automotive manufacturer AvtoVAZ; the car's name for the internal Soviet/Russian market is Zhiguli (Жигули́ (Žigulí)).

Translations

a female name

• Belarusian: Ла́да f (Láda)
• Bulgarian: Ла́да f (Láda)
• Czech: Lada (cs) f
• Macedonian: Лада f (Lada)
• Russian: Ла́да (ru) f (Láda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лада f

  Roman: Lada f

• Ukrainian: Ла́да (uk) f (Láda)

a Russian car

• Arabic: لَادَا f (lādā)
• Belarusian: Ла́да f (Láda)
• Bulgarian: Ла́да f (Láda), Жигу́ла f (Žigúla)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉達／拉达 (zh) (Lādá)

• Czech: Lada (cs) f
• Hebrew: לאדה f
• Hindi: लाडा (lāḍā), लादा (lādā)
• Japanese: ラーダ (Rāda), ラダ (Rada)
• Korean: 라다 (Rada)
• Macedonian: Лада f (Lada)
• Persian: لادا (lâdâ)
• Polish: Łada f
• Portuguese: Lada m
• Russian: Ла́да (ru) f (Láda), Жигули́ (ru) pl (Žigulí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лада f

  Roman: Lada f

• Ukrainian: Ла́да (uk) f (Láda)

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lada”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 377.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• Adal, Alda, daal, dala

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlada]

Proper noun

Lada f

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Lada (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Lada	Lady
genitive	Lady	Lad
dative	Ladě	Ladám
accusative	Ladu	Lady
vocative	Lado	Lady
locative	Ladě	Ladách
instrumental	Ladou	Ladami

Plautdietsch

Noun

Lada f (plural Ladren)

1. ladder

Portuguese

Noun

Lada m (plural Ladas)

1. Lada (a Russian car model)

Romanian

Etymology

From lada, definite form of ladă.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Lada f

1. A village in Tătărăștii de Jos, Teleorman, Romania