| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| pada |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pa·da |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pä d |
| NOUN: | A unit of Sanskrit poetic meter consisting of a series of light and heavy syllables in any of various set combinations. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Sanskrit p dam, from pt, pad-, foot. See ped- in Appendix I.
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