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Paua vs Pada - What's the difference?

paua | pada |

As nouns the difference between paua and pada

is that paua is a large, edible abalone, haliotis iris , native to new zealand, whose shell is used to make jewelry while pada is the basic metric unit of vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.

paua

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A large, edible abalone, Haliotis iris , native to New Zealand, whose shell is used to make jewelry.
  • The shell of this mollusc.
  • A fish hook made from this shell.

    • pada

    English

    Noun

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