"vada" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈvɑːdə/ Forms: vadas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hi|वड़ा}} Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā) Head templates: {{en-noun}} vada (plural vadas)
  1. A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia. Categories (topical): Foods, Snacks Translations (Asian doughnut): bára (Sarnami) (Caribbean Hindustani), bara [masculine] (Dutch), વડા (vaḍā) [masculine] (Gujarati), वड़ा (vaṛā) [masculine] (Hindi), बड़ा (baṛā) [masculine] (Hindi), ವಡೆ (vaḍe) (Kannada), wade (Malay), വട (vaṭa) (Malayalam), वडा (vaḍā) [masculine] (Marathi), ବରା (barā) (Odia), ਵੜਾ (vaṛā) (Punjabi), bara (Sranan Tongo), வடை (vaṭai) (Tamil), వడ (vaḍa) (Telugu), ವಡೆ (vaḍe) (Tulu), وڑا (vaṛā) [masculine] (Urdu)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈvɑːdə/ Forms: vadas [present, singular, third-person], vadaing [participle, present], vada'd [participle, past], vada'd [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|pml|vada}} Sabir vada, {{der|en|it|vedere||to see}} Italian vedere (“to see”) Head templates: {{en-verb|3=vada'd}} vada (third-person singular simple present vadas, present participle vadaing, simple past and past participle vada'd)
  1. (Polari) To look (at), to see Tags: Polari Synonyms: look, varder Related terms: batata vada, vada pav
    Sense id: en-vada-en-verb-olB39II4 Categories (other): Polari, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.