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, -a
• Hyphenation: ho‧a

hoa

1. Informal second-person singular (hi) present indicative form of joan (“to go”).
2. Informal second-person singular (hi) imperative form of joan (“to go”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.a/, [ˈho.wə]

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

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 and Rapa Nui 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; to 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”). Cognate with Hawaiian hoa and Maori hoa.

hoa

1. friend

hoa

1. to shout

Of interjectionary origin, similar to Danish ho.

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

• bjoóc

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

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

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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]

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

(classifier bông, đoá) hoa

1. (botany) flower; flowering plant

   Synonym: bông

   cánh hoa ― petal

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

Suits in Vietnamese · hoa, chất (layout · text)
cơ	rô	pích, bích	nhép, tép, chuồn

hoa

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 華