hoa

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: hoe, hoh

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?

• AHO, Hao, OHA, hao, hào

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

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoa/, [ˈhoə]

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

hoa

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

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

hoa

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

hoa

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ho.a/, [hɔ.ɐ]

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

hoa

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

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

hoa

1. pitch (of a roof)

hoa (passive hoaina)

1. to lay out, to plan arrange

hoa

1. charm, spell, enchantment

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

hoa f

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

From Proto-Polynesian *soa, from Proto-Oceanic *soʀa (“friend, partner”).

hoa

1. friend

hoa

1. to shout

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.

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

hoa

1. friend

Compare Rarotongan ‘oa (“neuralgic headache”).

hoa

1. headache

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

From Vietnamese hoa.

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

hoa (花)

1. flower

• bjooc / bjoóc / bioóc

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

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.[1]

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [waː˧˧]

(classifier bông, đoá) hoa

1. a flower

   Synonym: bông

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).

• chữ hoa

hoa

1. (card games) a suit