honda
See also: Honda
English
WOTD – 28 June 2017
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 (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒndə
- Hyphenation: hon‧da
Noun
honda (plural hondas)
- (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.
- (Southwestern US) A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.
Derived terms
Cebuano
Etymology
Genericization of the trademark Honda.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hon‧da
- IPA(key): /ˈhonda/, [ˈhon̪.d̪ʌ]
Noun
honda
- (genericized trademark, regional, chiefly Southern Leyte) motorcycle
- Synonyms: motor, motorsiklo
Anagrams
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hon‧da
Noun
honda (first-person possessive hondaku, second-person possessive hondamu, third-person possessive hondanya)
- (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.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- “honda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Honda (arma) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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