haka

Maori warriors performing a haka at a pōhiri ceremony to welcome United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta when he visited Auckland, New Zealand, on 21 September 2012

Borrowed from Maori haka, from Proto-Polynesian *saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakaŋ. The word is cognate with Hawaiian haʻa (“dance”), Mangarevan ʻaka (“to perform a traditional dance; a usually warlike dance accompanied by a chant”), Rarotongan ʻaka (“dance”), Samoan saʻa (“dance”), Tokelauan haka (“dance”), Tongan haka (“hand action made while singing”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːkə/, /ˈhæ-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑkə/, /ˈhæ-/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈhaka/, /ˈhaːka/
• Rhymes: -ɑːkə, -ækə
• Homophone: Hakka (in some dialects)
• Hyphenation: ha‧ka

haka (plural hakas or haka)

1. A group dance of New Zealand's Maori people featuring rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping. Traditionally a war dance, today it is also performed to welcome guests, as a mark of respect at occasions such as commemorations and funerals, as a challenge to opposing teams at sports events, and for artistic purposes.
   • 1838, J[oel] S[amuel] Polack, chapter III, in New Zealand: Being a Narrative of Travels and Adventures during a Residence in that Country between the Years 1831 and 1837. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, →OCLC, page 81:

     After each of my retinue were presented to the chief, partaking of the honour of the ougi, or salutation, the hákà, or dance of welcome, was performed; this was commenced by our entertainers, who placed themselves in an extended line, in ranks four deep. This dance, to a stranger witnessing it for the first time, is calculated to excite the most alarming fears; […]

   • 1876 January, “A Week among the Maoris of Lake Taupo”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 193, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 65:

     A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the corroboree of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. […] Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I expected. The performers, all male, stood in a row, one, slightly advanced, acting as fugleman. They shouted and gesticulated with the most hideous and revolting gestures, grimaces, and yells.

   • 1986, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, “Life in a Maori School”, in Teacher (A Touchstone Book), 1st Touchstone edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 198 and 200:

     [T]he children might get up and dance in the middle of their sums. Matawhero might stand up and lead a haka if I'm not careful. Oh dear.

   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup Final: New Zealand 8 – 7 France”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2017:

     An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.

   • 2013, Matt J. Rossano, “Mountain Rituals”, in Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us about Human Evolution, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106:

     The Maori haka ritual has been made famous by the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby team. Before each match, the All Blacks face their opponents and engage in a synchronized display of hand-slapping, feet-stomping, chest-pumping, tongue-wagging, and eye-popping chanting and dancing designed to intimidate their opponents. The All Blacks' version of the haka is called ka-mate, a war haka or peruperu. […] But hakas are not restricted to war; they are also used as a welcome to strangers, as part of a funeral, or as part of various celebrations and ceremonies.

• kapa haka

haka (third-person singular simple present hakas, present participle hakaing, simple past and past participle hakaed)

1. (intransitive) To perform the haka.
   • 1870, Richard Taylor, “Traditions and Legends. (Continued.) [The Story of Tama te Kapua, and His Brother Wakaturia.]”, in Te Ika a Maui; or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants. Illustrating the Origin, Manners, Customs, Mythology, Religion, Rites, Songs, Proverbs, Fables, and Language of the Maori and Polynesian Races in General; together with the Geology, Natural History, Productions, and Climate of the Country, 2nd edition, London: William Macintosh, 24, Paternoster Row; Wanganui, New Zealand: H. Ireson Jones, →OCLC, page 274:

     [T]hey hoisted him up to the ridge pole and lighted the fire; they began to haka, when they were tired of that they sang songs, […]

   • 1888, John White, “Hotu-nui. (Nga-ti-maru.)”, in The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions. Tai-Nui, volume IV, Wellington: By authority; George Didsbury, government printer, →OCLC, pages 213–214:

     [page 213] The haka is one of the Maori's most honourable games that can be performed to entertain strangers; and when such is played it is a sign of a people of chiefs and days of peace. The people played this game to her that Te-kahu-rere-moa might haka and entertain them, that they might see how beautifully she could haka. […] [page 214] She hakaed for some time, and all the people were quite in love with her.

   • 2011, Glyn Harper, editor, Letters from Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home‎, Auckland: Auckland University Press, →ISBN:

     We captured the trenches midst our hakas and cheering. The other party did well, we could hear them on the opposite hill cheering, and hakaing as they went along.

• haka on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• haka (sports) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Akha

haka

1. boat

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Borrowed from Maori haka.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦaka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: ha‧ka

haka f

1. haka (dance of New Zealand's Maori people featuring rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping.)
   • 2015 September 22, Pavel Jahoda, “Nejenom haka straší na MS soupeře. K vidění jsou i sipi tau či bole”, in ČT sport‎:

     Haka k Novému Zélandu a některým jeho sportovním týmům neodmyslitelně patří, ale nejznámější je ve spojení právě s ragby. Sport známý svou tvrdostí získává slavným tancem, při němž hráči používají všemožné grimasy včetně vyplazování jazyka, tleskají, plácají se po stehnech a rytmicky zpívají, kouzlo, které uchvátilo davy fanoušků po celém světě.

     Haka is inseparable from rugby. The sport, which is known for rough play, gets another charm thanks to the dance, during which the players use various facial expressions including sticking out their tongues, clap their hands and slap their thighs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑkɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑkɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧ka

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish haka (compare standard hake).

haka

1. hook, clasp (type of fastener)

• “1. haka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Probably borrowed from Old Swedish hagha, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hagô (“enclosure, yard; pasture”).

haka

1. corral, paddock, croft (enclosure for livestock)

• “2. haka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From dialectal Swedish hake.

haka (not comparable) (informal)

1. (indeclinable) very good, skilled, masterful

Chiefly used in the verb phrase olla haka (+ inessive), meaning "to be (very) good at something, to be a master at". Only used predicatively in any case (never attributively).

Indeclinable.

• kaha

• IPA^(key): /ɦaka/

haka

1. to go

   Synonym: etlhikwa

From Proto-Polynesian *fata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pataʀ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.ka/, [ˈhɐ.kə]

haka

1. shelf
2. platform

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːka/
• Rhymes: -aːka

From Old Norse haka.

haka f (genitive singular höku, nominative plural hökur)

1. (anatomy) chin

See haki (“pick”)

haka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hakaði, supine hakað)

1. to pick with a pickaxe
2. to mark with a check mark (usually with the preposition við)

haka

1. indefinite accusative singular of haki
2. indefinite dative singular of haki
3. indefinite genitive singular of haki
4. indefinite accusative plural of haki
5. indefinite genitive plural of haki

haka

1. Rōmaji transcription of はか

haka f

1. hook

haka

1. four

Hinde (1904) records kuhaka as an equivalent of English paint in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

• IPA^(key): /haka/

haka (infinitive kũhaka)

1. to paint, to smear[2][3]
2. to propitiate by gift[3]
3. to bribe[2]

From Proto-Polynesian *saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakaŋ. Word is cognate with Hawaiian haʻa (“dance”), Mangarevan ʻaka (“to perform a traditional dance; a usually warlike dance accompanied by a chant”), Rarotongan ʻaka (“dance”), Samoan saʻa (“dance”), Tokelauan haka (“dance”), Tongan haka (“hand action made while singing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.ka/, [ˈhɐ.kɐ]

haka

1. A war dance; a haka.

Used in the form haka-a.

• haka taparahi (a ceremonial haka)
• kapa haka (the participants in the haka)

• peruperu (the proper term for the war dance)

• → English: haka
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: haka
• → Czech: haka

• haken

haka c

1. definite feminine singular of hake (Etymology 1)

Borrowed from English haka, from Maori haka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː.kɑ/

haka m (definite singular hakaen)

1. haka dance

To the noun hake m.

• IPA^(key): /²hɑ(ː).kɑ/

haka (present tense hakar, past tense haka, past participle haka, passive infinitive hakast, present participle hakande, imperative haka/hak)

1. a-infinitive and split infinitive form of hake

From Old Norse haka f.

• IPA^(key): /²hɑ(ː).kɑ/

haka f

1. definite singular of hake (“chin”)
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of hake

H-insertion on ake with split infinitive. From Old Norse aka, from Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.

haka (past tense hok)

1. (dialectal, Eastern Norway) alternative form of aka (“to go; glide”)
   • 1953, Reidar Holtvedt, Historier fra Krokskauen, Oslo: Aschehoug, page 196:

     Ja, guttungen hok der forrige daen, han, og je har nå høki der je au, sa han.

     Yeah. The kid went there the other day, he. And I have gone there as well, says he.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː.kɑ/

haka n

1. definite plural of hak

• “haka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “haka”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “haka” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Related to the root of haki (“hook, pick”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô, referring to something pointing out.[1]

haka f (genitive hǫku, plural hǫkur)

1. chin

• Icelandic: haka
• Faroese: høka
• Norwegian: hake
• Swedish: haka
• Danish: hage

“haka”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ha‧ka

haka m inan

1. genitive/accusative singular of hak

From Proto-Polynesian *faka-. Cognates include Hawaiian haʻa- and Maori whaka-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.ka/
• Hyphenation: ha‧ka

haka

1. Used to indicate the causative aspect.

• haka'ite

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 153
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 441

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From Old Norse haka.

haka c

1. chin, lower part of face

hake (“hook”) +‎ -a

haka (present hakar, preterite hakade, supine hakat, imperative haka)

1. (often with fast, på, or upp) to hook (attach with something hook-like)
2. (often with i) to get hooked (stuck on something hook-like, not figuratively)

• haka på
• haka upp sig

• haka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• haka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• haka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• haca — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhakaʔ/ [ˈha.xɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -akaʔ
• Syllabification: ha‧ka

hakà (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜃ)

1. idea; opinion

   Synonyms: palagay, kuro, kuro-kuro, opinyon

2. notion; understanding

   Synonyms: pagkaunawa, pagkaintindi, pagkahiwatig

3. belief

   Synonyms: paniwala, paniniwala

4. guess

   Synonym: hula

5. suspicion

   Synonyms: hinala, paghihinala