Rada

Appendix:Variations of "rada" English Etymology 1 After the personal name (Rada Dany) of a prominent local family. Proper noun en unincorporated community s/West Virginia. Etymology 2 Feminine form of dialectal bg,uk рад glad, thankful, from en sla-pro *radъ. Proper noun s en bg,uk Ра́да female given name Etymology 3 Apparently a local form of en Arada (now Allada), a city in ancient Dahomey. Noun - In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Dahomeyan origin, chiefly associated with warmth and benevolence. en 1953 w:Maya Deren Divine Horsemen McPherson & Company 2004 60 The majority of the deities are Dahomean and the rites of these are called Rada, from the town Allada. en 1985 Wade Davis (anthropologist) Wade Davis The Serpent and the Rainbow 49 Simon & Schuster In Haiti, the Rada have come to represent the emotional stability and warmth of Africa, the hearth of the nation. en 2007 Kevin Filan The Haitian Vodou Handbook Destiny Books 31 Most books on Vodou have concentrated largely on the Rada pantheon. en 2012 Mambo Chita Tann Haitian Vodou 95 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 4 Alternative forms. Proper noun en rada. Translations rada Anagrams en aadr ADAR Adar Dara Draa Drâa Raad arad raad en 2-syllable words en Voodoo Czech Pronunciation Proper noun m-an Radová cs m Declension m.an.surname Further reading