hula
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːlə
- Hyphenation: hu‧la
Noun
hula (plural hulas)
- A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 87:
- Under the rule of Kalākaua, they had revived the hula, which had been condemned by the missionaries.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 87:
Derived terms
Translations
Hawaiian chant and dance
Verb
hula (third-person singular simple present hulas, present participle hulaing, simple past and past participle hulaed)
- (intransitive) To dance the hula.
Anagrams
Cebuano
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English hula, from Hawaiian hula.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hu‧la
Noun
hula
- hula; a form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there
Verb
hula
- to dance the hula
Finnish
Noun
hula
Declension
Inflection of hula (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hula | hulat | |
genitive | hulan | hulien | |
partitive | hulaa | hulia | |
illative | hulaan | huliin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hula | hulat | |
accusative | nom. | hula | hulat |
gen. | hulan | ||
genitive | hulan | hulien hulain rare | |
partitive | hulaa | hulia | |
inessive | hulassa | hulissa | |
elative | hulasta | hulista | |
illative | hulaan | huliin | |
adessive | hulalla | hulilla | |
ablative | hulalta | hulilta | |
allative | hulalle | hulille | |
essive | hulana | hulina | |
translative | hulaksi | huliksi | |
abessive | hulatta | hulitta | |
instructive | — | hulin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
Hausa
Noun
hū̀lā f (plural huluna)
Hawaiian
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
- a form of dance native to the Hawaiian Islands
- a hula dancer
- a chant or song which accompanies the dance
Verb
- (transitive) to dance the hula
- (transitive) to chant in accompaniment with the dance
- (intransitive) to twitch
Derived terms
Descendants
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
hula f (genitive singular hulu, nominative plural hulur)
Declension
declension of hula
Synonyms
Related terms
- hylja (“to hide, to conceal”)
Irish
Noun
hula
- h-prothesized form of ula
Lower Sorbian
Noun
hula
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
hula m or f
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
hula
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
hula f (Cyrillic spelling хула)
Synonyms
Venda
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́da.
Verb
hula
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- Rhymes:English/uːlə
- English lemmas
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- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Dances
- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano terms derived from Hawaiian
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano verbs
- ceb:Dances
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish koira-type nominals
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- Hausa nouns
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- Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hawaiian transitive verbs
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- haw:Dances
- Icelandic 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/ʏːla
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- Irish non-lemma forms
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