abada

From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from Malay badaq (“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

abada

1. eternity

abada

1. always, forever

• Homophones: abadas, abadât

abada

1. third-person singular past historic of abader

From aba (“apron”) +‎ -ada.

• IPA^(key): /aˈβaða̝/

abada f (plural abadas)

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

• aba

• “abada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “abada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “abada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “abada” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

abada

1. (anatomy) shoulder

From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from a bada (“the rhinoceros”), with concretion of the definite article.

• IPA^(key): /aˈba.da/
• Stress: abàda
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧da

abada m (plural abadi) abada f (plural abade)

1. Alternative form of bada (“rhinoceros”)

abada f (plural abadas)

1. Alternative form of bada (“rhinoceros”)

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

Portuguese abada

abada f (plural abadas)

1. (obsolete) rhinoceros

   Synonym: rinoceronte

• “abada” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

abada

1. locative singular of aba