honda

See also: Honda

English

WOTD – 28 June 2017

A lasso with a white honda (sense 2)

Etymology

Probably from Spanish honda, fonda (“sling”), from Latin funda (“hand-sling”); or from Spanish hondón (“eye of a needle”), from hondo (“bottom; deep, profound”) (from Latin fundus (“bottom, lowest part”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o, from *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”)) + -ón (“suffix indicating a similar (usually larger) object”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒndə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑndə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒndə
• Hyphenation: hon‧da

Noun

honda (plural hondas)

1. (Southwestern US) A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
2. (Southwestern US) A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.

Derived terms

• honda knot

Anagrams

• Dohan, had on

Cebuano

Etymology

Genericization of the trademark Honda.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hon‧da
• IPA^(key): /ˈhonda/, [ˈhon̪.d̪ɐ]

Noun

honda

1. (genericized trademark, regional, chiefly Southern Leyte) motorcycle

   Synonyms: motor, motorsiklo

Anagrams

• dahon

Indonesian

Etymology

A genericized trademark of the Japanese trademark Honda, from Japanese ホンダ or 本田(ほんだ) (honda).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hon‧da

Noun

honda (first-person possessive hondaku, second-person possessive hondamu, third-person possessive hondanya)

1. (dialect, informal) a motorcycle

   Synonyms: motor, sepeda motor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈonda/ [ˈõn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -onda
• Syllabification: hon‧da
• Homophone: onda

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish fonda, from Latin funda.

Noun

honda f (plural hondas)

1. sling, slingshot

Derived terms

• hondero
• palabra de boca, piedra de honda

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

honda

1. feminine singular of hondo

Further reading

• “honda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Honda (arma) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es