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padas

padas is the plural of pada.

Meaning of pada

Noun

pada (plural padas)

  1. (Sanskrit) The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
    • There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 79

Proper noun capitalized: Padas

Padas

  1. A river in Sabah, Malaysia.

Questions about padas

What does padas mean?
Padas means a river in Sabah, Malaysia.
What is padas the plural of?
Padas is the plural of pada.
What part of speech is padas?
Padas is a proper noun.

Words near padas in the dictionary

  1. Padanian
  2. Padanians
  3. Padaoil
  4. padar
  5. Padarn
  6. padas
  7. Padasjoki
  8. padauk
  9. padauks
  10. Padaung
  11. Padaungs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: padas (page history and authors); Padas (page history and authors); pada (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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