rada
/ɹˈɑdə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A soviet, a form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
name
name
A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Ukrainian female given name Ра́да (Ráda)
noun
In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Dahomeyan origin, chiefly associated with warmth and benevolence.
Uncountable
name
Alternative letter-case form of rada.
Example Sentences
- "The majority of the deities are Dahomean and the rites of these are called Rada, from the town Allada."
- "In Haiti, the Rada have come to represent the emotional stability and warmth of Africa, the hearth of the nation."
- "Most books on Vodou have concentrated largely on the Rada pantheon."
- "We associate the Rada Lwa with the color white and with a sense of purity and formality. Because of this, anthropologists and non-Haitians often described the Rada as the “good ancestral Lwa,” while the spirits of the Petro nation of Lwa were considered “evil,” or invented by slaves in Haiti, though this is extremely oversimplified."
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish rada, from Middle High German rât. Compare German Rat, Icelandic ráð and Dutch raad. Doublet of rede.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rada, rât, *radъ