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Abbreviation of English Adjora.

ado

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Abu.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Abu terms

From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.

• IPA(key): /əˈduː/
• Rhymes: -uː

ado (uncountable)

1. Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.
   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
     Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
     It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
     But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
     What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
     I am to learn;
     And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,
     That I have much ado to know myself.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
     Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ado.

Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such as without further ado or much ado about nothing.

doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles

• Czech: povyk (cs) m, zdržování n, rotyka (cs) f

• Dutch: gedoe (nl) n

• Finnish: meteli (fi), mekkala (fi), älämölö (fi)

• French: cérémonies (fr) f pl, manières (fr) f pl, bruit (fr) m, histoire (fr) f, foin (fr) m

• German: Getue (de) n

• Hungarian: hűhó (hu)

• Māori: utiuti

• Plautdietsch: Kracheel m, Puhu m

• Portuguese: confusão (pt), barulho (pt)

• Russian: затруднение (ru) n (zatrudnenije)

• Slovak: hurhaj m, zdržiavanie n

• Turkish: gürültü (tr), patırtı (tr), telaş (tr), yaygara (tr)

• à deux

• adieu

• “ado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• dao, oda, Oda, Dao, oad, DAO, AOD, DOA, DAo, ODA

• (Southern dialects) aadó

• IPA(key): /aˈdo/ [ʔʌˈdɔ]

• Hyphenation: a‧do

adó f

1. (Northern dialects) generation
2. (Northern dialects) era

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ado”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

ado

1. expression of annoyance (clarification of this definition is needed)

Clipping of adolescent.

• IPA(key): /a.do/

ado m or f by sense (plural ados)

1. (colloquial) teen, teenager

Cognate with Saxwe Gbe ado and Aja (West Africa) edu.

• IPA(key): /à.dó/

àdó

1. wall

ado

1. Rōmaji transcription of あど

• IPA(key): /ˈado/, [ˈa.do]
• Hyphenation: a‧do

ado (Lontara spelling ᨕᨉᨚ)

1. precategorial root related to nodding or agreeing

• adòi

• ammado

• ammado-mado

• pamado-mado

• siadoang

• siadòi

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Alternative scripts

• 𑀅𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• अदो (Devanagari script)
• অদো (Bengali script)
• අදො (Sinhalese script)
• အဒေါ or ဢၻေႃ (Burmese script)
• อโท or อะโท (Thai script)
• ᩋᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
• ອໂທ or ອະໂທ (Lao script)
• អទោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)

ado

1. second-person singular aorist active of dadāti (“to give”)

ado

1. alternative form of adae

ado (plural adoes or ado's)

1. alternative form of adae

Ado.

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji ada, Hadiyya ado and Kambaata ado.

• IPA(key): /ˈado/
• Hyphenation: a‧do

ado f (uncountable)

1. milk

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007), A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “ado”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department
• IPA(key): [ˈ(ʔ)a.do]

ado

1. (intransitive) to arrive

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

ado (first-person singular present adawaf)

1. alternative form of adaw (“to leave, to depart”)

ado (first-person singular present adaf)

1. alternative form of adio (“to add”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “ado”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Variant orthographies

Borrowed from Spanish arroz.

• IPA(key): [aɾ̠o]

ado

1. rice

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ado”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon