hoop

See also Hoop

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: ho͞op, IPA: /huːp/, X-SAMPA: /hu:p/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land", in combination, also "circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Dutch hoep), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavic  (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. (plural) The game of basketball.
3. A hoop earring.
4. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.

Derived terms

• hula hoop
• jump through hoops

Translations

circular band of metal used to bind a barrel

• Belarusian: абруч (be) (abrúč) m
• Catalan: cèrcol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箍 (cmn) (gū), 圈 (cmn) (quān)

• Czech: obruč (cs) f
• Finnish: vanne (fi)
• French: cercle (fr) m, cerceau (fr) m
• German: Reif (de) m
• Japanese: フープ (ja) (fūpu)
• Macedonian: обрач (mk) (óbrač) m
• Navajo: bąąs

• Norwegian: tønnebånd (no) n
• Polish: obręcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: aro (pt) m
• Russian: обруч (ru) (óbruč) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cearcall (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: обруч (sh) m

  Roman: obruč (sh) m

• Spanish: aro (es) m
• Ukrainian: обруч (uk) (óbruč) m
• Volapük: tübatan (vo)

hoops: basketball

• Finnish: koris (fi)
• Macedonian: кош (mk) (koš) m, обрач (mk) (óbrač) m

• Norwegian: kurv (no) m

hoop earring — see hoop earring

Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.

   to hoop a barrel or puncheon

2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Translations

to fasten with a hoop

• Finnish: vannehtia (fi)

• Romanian: fereca (ro)

Etymology 2

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
2. The hoopoe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• phoo, Pooh, pooh

References

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Afrikaans

Etymology 1

Noun

hoop (plural hope, diminutive hopie, diminutive plural hopies)

1. heap

Derived terms

• ophoop

Etymology 2

Dutch hopen

Noun

hoop (uncountable)

1. hope

Verb

hoop (past participle gehoop)

1. to hope

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːp
• IPA: /ɦoːp/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa, from the verb hopon (modern Dutch hopen). Cognate with English hope.

Noun

hoop f (uncountable)

1. A hope, aspiration, wish

Antonyms

• (hope): wanhoop

Derived terms

• hopeloos
• hoopgevend
• hoopvol

Verb

hoop

1. first-person singular present indicative of hopen
2. imperative of hopen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hoop, from Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz. Cognate with English heap.

Noun

hoop m (plural hopen, diminutive hoopje)

1. A pile, heap, stack
2. (figuratively) A lot, heaps

   Dat zijn weer een hoop slechte cijfers, dus je krijgt een hoop striemen!

   That's another bunch of lousy grades, so you get a load of lashes!

3. A pile of manure, faeces

Synonyms

• berg
• massa
• stapel

Derived terms

• ophopen
• mesthoop
• op één hoop gooien
• te hoop lopen