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Ada is a feminine given name. One origin is the Germanic element "adel-" meaning " nobility ", for example as part of the names Adelaide and Adeline . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The name can also trace to a Hebrew origin, sometimes spelled Adah עָדָה, meaning " adornment ". [ 4 ]
Ada, Alina, Zélie, Adele, Adelina Adeline is a feminine given name meaning 'noble' or 'nobility'; it is of German origin and derived from Old High German adal "noble." [ 1 ] The root lives on in the New High German words Adel "nobility," edel "noble," and adelig "noble."
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), computer scientist sometimes regarded as the first computer programmer; Ada (name), a feminine given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters; Ada of Caria (fl. 377 – 326 BCE), satrap of ancient Caria and adoptive mother of Alexander the Great
Saint Ada (also known as Adeneta, Adna, Adnetta, Adonette, Adbechild, Adrehildis, end of 6th or 7th century), was a saint and abbess. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was the niece or granddaughter of Saint Englebert, bishop of Le Mans .
Ad-Din (Arabic: الْدِّين ad-dīn, "(of) the religion/faith/creed") is a suffix component of some Arabic names in the construct case, meaning 'the religion/faith/creed', e.g. Saif ad-Din (Arabic: سيف الدّين Sayf ad-Dīn, "Sword of the Faith").
Adam [c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). [5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This ...
The Latin term religiō, the origin of the modern lexeme religion (via Old French/Middle Latin [2]), is of ultimately obscure etymology. It is recorded beginning in the 1st century BC, i.e. in Classical Latin at the end of the Roman Republic , notably by Cicero , in the sense of "scrupulous or strict observance of the traditional cultus ".
The name stems from the Arabic verb sa‘ada ( سَعَدَ 'to be happy, fortunate or lucky'). Saad is the stem of variant given names Suad and Sa‘id. It may be a shortened version of Sa'd al-Din, and is not to be confused with it. It is not the same as the single Arabic letter ṣād, which has no intrinsic meaning. It may refer to: