hoa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hoa"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: hoe, hoh

Interjection

hoa

1. (obsolete) ho; hey; a call for attention
   • 1751, David Garrick, Every Man in His Humour (adapted from the 1598 work by Ben Jonson)

     Hoa, who is within here?

Anagrams

• AHO, Hao, OHA, hao, hào

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hoa/ [ho.a]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /oa/ [o.a]
• Rhymes: -oa, -a
• Hyphenation: ho‧a

Verb

hoa

1. Informal second-person singular (hi) present indicative form of joan (“to go”).
2. Informal second-person singular (hi) present imperative form of joan (“to go”).

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.a/, [ˈho.wə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *soa, from Proto-Oceanic *soʀa (“friend, partner”). Cognate with Maori hoa and Rapa Nui hoa.

Noun

hoa

1. friend, companion, associate, colleague, comrade, partner, mate, peer

Derived terms

• hoʻohoa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *foa, from Proto-Oceanic *posaq, from Proto-Austronesian *pəcəq (“break into several large pieces”). Cognate with Maori hoa

Noun

hoa

1. club (heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything)

Verb

hoa

1. to club, to strike with a stick or club

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “hoa”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Maori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho.a/, [hɔ.ɐ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *soa, from Proto-Oceanic *soʀa (“friend, partner”). Cognate with Hawaiian hoa and Rapa Nui hoa.

Noun

hoa

1. friend, companion, mate, partner, spouse, ally

Derived terms

• hoahoa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *foa (“make a path”).

Noun

hoa

1. pitch (of a roof)

Verb

hoa (passive hoaina)

1. to lay out; to plan; to arrange

Etymology 3

Noun

hoa

1. charm, spell, enchantment

References

• “hoa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hoa f

1. definite singular of ho
2. definite singular of hoe

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *soa, from Proto-Oceanic *soʀa (“friend, partner”). Cognate with Hawaiian hoa and Maori hoa.

Noun

hoa

1. friend

Sotho

Verb

hoa

1. to shout

Swedish

Etymology

Of interjectionary origin, similar to Danish ho.

Verb

hoa (present hoar, preterite hoade, supine hoat, imperative hoa)

1. to hoot (make the cry of an owl)

   Jag hör ugglans hoande. "Ho-ho" säger den.

   I hear the hooting of the owl. "Hoot hoot" it says.

Conjugation

Conjugation of hoa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	hoa		hoas
supine	hoat		hoats
imperative	hoa		—
imper. plural1	hoen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	hoar	hoade	hoas	hoades
ind. plural1	hoa	hoade	hoas	hoades
subjunctive2	hoe	hoade	hoes	hoades
present participle		hoande
past participle		hoad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Tahitian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *soa, from Proto-Oceanic *soʀa (“friend, partner”). Cognate with Maori hoa and Hawaiian hoa.

Noun

hoa

1. friend

Etymology 2

Compare Rarotongan ‘oa (“neuralgic headache”).

Noun

hoa

1. headache

References

• Sven Wahlroos (2002) “hoa”, in English–Tahitian, Tahitian–English Dictionary, First edition, Honolulu: The Mā'ohi Heritage Press, →ISBN, page 588

Tày

Etymology

From Vietnamese hoa.

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [hwaː˦˥]

Noun

hoa (花)

1. flower

Synonyms

• bjoóc

Derived terms

• hoa cáp
• hoa khôi
• hoa nèo

References

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

FWOTD – 23 December 2021

Alternative forms

• (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, dated or obsolete) huê
• (certain small Central dialects) ba

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 花. The "capital" sense probably comes from the flourishes of the cursive capital letters that are commonly taught in elementary schools; even cursive lower-case letters don't have as many flourishes, which explains the distinction.

The form ba is attested in some Central dialects, most notably from the placename Đông Ba.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [waː˧˧]

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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Noun

(classifier bông, đoá) hoa

1. a flower

   Synonym: bông

   cánh hoa ― petal

Derived terms

• báo hoa mai
• bó hoa
• đá hoa
• đào hoa (桃花)
• đăng tiêu hoa to
• gái bán hoa
• hoa bia
• hoa chúc (花燭)
• hoa có chủ
• hoa giáp (花甲)
• hoa hậu (花后)
• hoa hồng (花紅)
• hoa khôi (花魁)
• Hoa Kì (花旗)
• hoa kim châm (金針花)
• hoa liễu (花柳)
• hoa lơ
• hoa lơ trắng
• hoa màu
• hoa mắt
• hoa mười giờ
• hoa nhài cắm bãi cứt trâu
• hoa quả (花果)
• hoa tai
• hoa tiêu (花椒)
• mai hoa (梅花)
• mỗi cây mỗi hoa, mỗi nhà mỗi cảnh
• nhũ hoa (乳花)
• nước hoa
• pháo hoa (炮花)
• trăng hoa
• vòi hoa sen

Adjective

hoa

1. capital, upper case

   Antonym: thường

   • 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 1, in Số đỏ, Hà Nội báo:

     Ấy là một cuộc tình duyên, với, hơn nữa – theo lối gọi của những ông làm báo – một cuộc tình duyên của Bình dân (chữ B hoa).

     Theirs was a love affair, and what is more – in the words of journalists – a love affair of the People (with a capital P).

Derived terms

• chữ hoa

Noun

hoa

1. (card games) a suit