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Aida en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of Aida cloth.

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Synonyms

Aida cloth

Aida en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, which premiered in 1871.

Meanings

  1. A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.
    • Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian. More laughter. Oh, I always live up to it. 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23:

Translations (7)

it Aida (female given name) · ru Аи́да (female given name) · pt Aída (female given name) · hy Աիդա (female given name) · es Aída (female given name) · pl Aida (female given name) · fr Aïda (female given name)