# loa
## English
### Alternative forms

* lwa

### Etymology

From Haitian Creole lwa.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈləʊə/
* Rhymes: -əʊə

### Noun

loa (plural loas or loa)
* In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
** 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.
** 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 3:Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered.
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 714:Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa (Haitian equivalent of orisha) Dambala Wèdo.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* -ola, AOL, Lao, OAL, Ola, ola

## Estonian
### Noun

loa
* genitive singular of luba

## Galician
### Verb

loa
* inflection of loar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlo.a/, [ˈlo.wə]

### Noun

loa
* distance, length

### Verb

loa
* (stative) long, permanent

#### Derived terms

* Hōkūloa (literally “long star”)
* Mauna Loa (literally “long mountain”)
* hikiāloa (literally “to reach a long way”)

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Loa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɔ.a/
* Rhymes: -ɔa
* Hyphenation: lò‧a

### Noun

loa f (plural loe)
* any nematod of the Loa taxonomic genus

### Further reading

* loa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Lao, alo, alo-, alò, olà

## Malagasy
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luaq (compare Malay luak).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlu.a]

### Verb

loa
* to vomit
* to pay
* to discharge

#### Related terms

| | Focus (Voice) |
| Agent (Active) | man-form: mandoa |
| Agent (Active) | mi-form: -- |
| Agent (Active) | om-form: -- |
| Patient (Passive) | loa |
| Patient (Passive) | alternate: -- |
| Patient (Passive) | a-form: aloa |
| Patient (Passive) | voa-form: voaloa |
| Patient (Passive) | tafa-form: -- |
| Goal (Relative) | an-form: andoavana |
| Goal (Relative) | i-form: -- |

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

loa (present tense loar, past tense loa, past participle loa, passive infinitive loast, present participle loande, imperative loa/lo)
* Alternative spelling of loe

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

loa f
* definite singular of lo

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* lôa (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlo.ɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlo.ɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈlo.a/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlo.ɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlo.ɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈlo(w).ɐ/
* Hyphenation: lo‧a

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from loar.

#### Noun

loa f (plural loas)
* praise
* (usually in the plural) carol

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

loa
* inflection of loar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈloa/ [ˈlo.a]
* Rhymes: -oa
* Syllabification: lo‧a

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from loar.

#### Noun

loa f (plural loas)
* praise
    Synonyms: alabanza, halago, elogio, enaltecimiento
** 2022 August 23, Javier G. Cuesta, “Rusia convierte el funeral de Daria Dugina en un alegato para justificar el asedio a Ucrania”, in El País‎:La última despedida de Daria Dugina, asesinada la noche del pasado sábado en plena carretera en las afueras de Moscú con una bomba adosada a su coche, se ha convertido este martes en una loa a favor de la victoria rusa sobre Ucrania.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Related terms

* loar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

loa
* inflection of loar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “loa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* lowa, luwa

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish loa.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈloa/ [ˈloː.ɐ]
* Rhymes: -oa
* Syllabification: lo‧a

### Noun

loa (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜏ) (ecclesiastical, poetry)
* poetic panegyric of eulogy (usually in praise of the Virgin Mary and the saints)

### Anagrams

* alo, ola, Lao

## Tswana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɔ.a/

### Verb

lôa (perfect loile)
* to bewitch

#### Derived terms

* moloi

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 螺 (“spiral shell”).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [lwaː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [lwaː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [l⁽ʷ⁾aː˧˧]

### Noun

(classifier cái) loa
* megaphone (portable device used to amplify a person's voice)
* (by extension) speaker; loudspeaker

### Anagrams

* lao