hoya
See also: Hoya
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
hoya (plural hoyas)
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
hoya
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kuhoiya as an equivalent of English pray in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuvoiya as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
- This o is pronounced long.[2]
Verb
hoya (infinitive kũhoya)
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- mũhoi class 1
(Proverbs)
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “hoya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 165. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 198, 229, 241.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin fovea. Doublet of fóvea.
Pronunciation
Noun
hoya f (plural hoyas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “hoya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Xhosa
Etymology
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Verb
-hoya?
- (transitive) to pay attention to
Inflection
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