padda

• parra

From Dutch pad.

padda (plural paddas, diminutive paddatjie)

1. frog, toad

• boompadda
• brulpadda

From Old Norse padda (“toad”). Compare Icelandic padda, Danish padde, English pad. See also Dutch pad and paddenstoel

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰatːa/
• Rhymes: -atːa

padda f (genitive singular paddu, plural paddur)

1. toad
2. amphibian (any animal of the taxonomic class Amphibia)

• froskpadda
• rúðurpadda

• froskur
• salamandra
• storkur

From Old Norse padda, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Faroese padda, Danish padde, Dutch pad, English pad.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰatːa/
• Rhymes: -atːa

padda f (genitive singular pöddu, nominative plural pöddur)

1. insect, bug

• (insect): skordýr

padda m (plural padda)

1. the Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora)

• padden

padda m or f

1. definite feminine singular of padde

padda f

1. definite singular of padde

From Germanic. Compare Italian palla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɖɖa/
• Hyphenation: pad‧da

padda f (plural paddi)

1. ball

From Old Swedish padda, from Old Norse padda. Of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bed- (“to swell”) (Pok. 96), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”) (Pok. 98-102), which would indicate a Proto-Germanic *paddǭ, and English paddock would possibly indicate the presence of a diminutive *paddukaz. Cognate with Icelandic padda, Danish padde.

Compare English puddle, Old English puduc (“swelling, lump, growth, wart”), Low German puddig (“swollen”).

padda c

1. a toad (an amphibian similar to a frog with bigger back legs and more ragged skin)