# hoa
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /həʊ/
* (US) IPA: /hoʊ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊ
* Homophones: hoe, hoh

### Interjection

hoa
* (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?

### Anagrams

* AHO, Hao, OHA, hao, hào

## Basque
### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

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

## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈho.a/, [ˈho.wə]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

hoa
* friend, companion, associate, colleague, comrade, partner, mate, peer

##### Derived terms

* hoʻohoa

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

hoa
* club (heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything)

#### Verb

hoa
* to club, to strike with a stick or club

### References

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

## Maori
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ho.a/, [hɔ.ɐ]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

hoa
* friend, companion, mate, partner, spouse, ally

##### Derived terms

* hoahoa

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

hoa
* pitch (of a roof)

#### Verb

hoa (passive hoaina)
* to lay out; to plan; to arrange

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

hoa
* charm, spell, enchantment

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

hoa f
* definite singular of ho
* definite singular of hoe

## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

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

### Noun

hoa
* friend

## Sotho
### Verb

hoa
* to shout

## Swedish
### Etymology

Of interjectionary origin, similar to Danish ho.

### Verb

hoa (present hoar, preterite hoade, supine hoat, imperative hoa)
* 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.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

## Tahitian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

hoa
* friend

### Etymology 2

Compare Rarotongan ‘oa (“neuralgic headache”).

#### Noun

hoa
* headache

### References

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

## Tày
### Etymology

From Vietnamese hoa.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

hoa (花)
* flower

#### Synonyms

* bjoóc

#### Derived terms

* hoa cáp
* hoa khôi
* hoa nèo

### References

* Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [hwaː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [hwaː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [waː˧˧]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

### Noun

(classifier bông, đoá) hoa
* (botany) flower; flowering plant
    Synonym: bông
    cánh hoa ― petal

#### Derived terms

* báo hoa mai
* bó hoa
* đá hoa
* đào hoa (桃花)
* đăng tiêu hoa to
* gái bán hoa
* hoa bia
* hoa chúc (花燭)
* hoa có chủ
* hoa giáp (花甲)
* hoa hậu (花后)
* hoa hồng (花紅)
* hoa khôi (花魁)
* Hoa Kì (花旗)
* hoa kim châm (金針花)
* hoa liễu (花柳)
* hoa lơ
* hoa lơ trắng
* hoa màu
* hoa mắt
* hoa mười giờ
* hoa nhài cắm bãi cứt trâu
* hoa quả (花果)
* hoa tai
* hoa tiêu (花椒)
* mai hoa (梅花)
* mỗi cây mỗi hoa, mỗi nhà mỗi cảnh
* nhũ hoa (乳花)
* nước hoa
* pháo hoa (炮花)
* trăng hoa
* vòi hoa sen

### Adjective

hoa
* 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).

#### Derived terms

* chữ hoa

### Noun

hoa
* (card games) a suit

#### See also

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

### References

* ↑ Trần, Ngọc Bảo (2017). "Từ Điển Phương Ngữ Huế".