hoa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hoa"

Translingual

Symbol

hoa

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hoava terms

English

Etymology

Obsolete variant of ho.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Australia):

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

Verb

hoa

1. familiar second-person singular, imperative of joan (“to go”)
2. familiar second-person singular, present indicative 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 Māori hoa and Rapa Nui hoa.

Noun

hoa

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

Derived terms

• hoa hana
• hoa hele
• hoa kime
• hoa paio
• hoa pili
• hoakipa
• hoʻohoa

Etymology 2

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

Lotha Naga

Etymology

From Proto-Central Naga *ɣaʔ. Cognate to Chungli Ao awa (“to swim”).

Verb

hoa

1. to swim

Inflection

Inflection of hoa

Formation	Tense			Imperative
	Present	Past	Future
Simple	hoala	hocho	hov	hoa
Causative	hotokala	hotokcho	hotokvü	hotoka
Perfect	hothaka	hothakcho	hothakvü	—
Abilitative	hokhoka	hokhokcho	hokhokvü	—

Further reading

• Murry, K. R.; Yanthan, J. T.; Patton, Alumo (1978), Anglo-Lotha Vocabulary, Wokha, Nagaland: Kyong Academy, page 142
• Department of Art & Culture, Government of Nagaland (2020), Lotha Bilingual Dictionary‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 August 2022, page 254
• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[2], Berkeley: University of California, page 181

Māori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoa/ [ˈhɔɐ]

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

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hoet (alternative simple past and indefinite past participle)
• hoede, hoete (alternative definite singular and plural past participles)

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ˈhuː.a/, [ˈhûː.a]
• Rhymes: -uːa
• Hyphenation: ho‧a

Verb

hoa

1. past of hoe (“to shout or call “ho””)
2. past participle of hoe (“to shout or call “ho””)

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 Māori 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.

See also

• uggla (“owl”)

References

• “hoa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hoa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “hoa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Tahitian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *soa, from Proto-Oceanic *soʀa (“friend, partner”). Cognate with Māori 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 (Nôm form 花)

1. flower

Synonyms

• bjoóc

Derived terms

• hoa cáp
• hoa khôi
• hoa nèo

References

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Ulithian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Micronesian *kau.

Noun

hoa

1. hook

References

• Yap State Department of Education (2025), Yaar Yaelwich Dekseneeri Irel Yal'ool Yiuldiy [Children's Picture Dictionary In Ulithian]‎^[4] (in Ulithian and English), 1st edition, Auckland, New Zealand: Ultimo Global, page 27

Vietnamese

FWOTD – 23 December 2021

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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Etymology 1

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. It is also attested in chữ Nôm as 芭 and 葩.

Alternative forms

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

Noun

hoa • (花) (classifier bông, đoá)

1. (botany) flower; flowering plant

   Synonym: bông

   cánh hoa ― petal

Derived terms

• báo hoa mai
• bó hoa
• đá hoa
• đào hoa
• đăng tiêu hoa to
• gái bán hoa
• hoa bia
• hoa chúc
• hoa có chủ
• hoa giáp
• hoa hậu
• hoa hoè
• hoa hoét
• hoa hồng
• hoa khôi
• Hoa Kì
• hoa kim châm
• hoa liễu
• hoa lơ
• hoa lơ trắng
• hoa màu
• hoa mắt
• hoa mười giờ
• hoa nhài cắm bãi cứt trâu
• hoa quả
• hoa tai
• hoa tay
• hoa tiêu
• mai hoa
• mỗi cây mỗi hoa, mỗi nhà mỗi cảnh
• nhũ hoa
• nước hoa
• pháo hoa
• trăng hoa
• vòi hoa sen
• vòng hoa

Adjective

hoa

1. capital, upper case

   Antonym: thường

   • 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 1, in Số đỏ [Dumb Luck], Hà Nội báo [Hanoi Newspaper]:

     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

   Synonym: chất

Etymology 2

Romanization

hoa

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 華

Derived terms

• hào hoa
• hoa lệ
• hoa mĩ
• phồn hoa
• tài hoa
• tinh hoa
• xa hoa

Anagrams

• hao