haluan

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare halwan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ha‧lu‧an

Noun

haluan

  1. the snakehead murrel (Channa striata)

Finnish

Verb

haluan

  1. first-person singular present indicative of haluta
    Haluan syödä kebabinI want to eat a kebab.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay haluan, from Proto-Malayic *hAluan, *hulu (head) +‎ *-an with the vowel adjacent to /h/ in the penultimate syllable regularly neutralized to /a/.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /haˈluan/ [haˈlu.an]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: ha‧lu‧an

Noun

haluan (plural haluan-haluan)

  1. bow (front of a boat or ship)