hula
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Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhuːlə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) enPR: ho͞oʹlə, IPA(key): /ˈhulə/
- Rhymes: -uːlə
- Hyphenation: hu‧la
Noun edit
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, page 87:
- Under the rule of Kalākaua, they had revived the hula, which had been condemned by the missionaries.
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hula (third-person singular simple present hulas, present participle hulaing, simple past and past participle hulaed)
- (intransitive) To dance the hula.
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Bikol Central edit
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húla or hulà
- prediction, forecast
- Synonym: prediksiyon
- guess
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Cebuano edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English hula, from Hawaiian hula.
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hula
- hula; a form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there
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hula
- to dance the hula
Finnish edit
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hula
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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 hulainrare | ||
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. |
Further reading edit
- “hula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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Hawaiian edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
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hula
- a form of dance native to the Hawaiian Islands
- a hula dancer
- a chant or song which accompanies the dance
Verb edit
hula
- (transitive) to dance the hula
- (transitive) to chant in accompaniment with the dance
- (intransitive) to twitch
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hula f (genitive singular hulu, nominative plural hulur)
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- hylja (“to hide, to conceal”)
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hula
- h-prothesized form of ula
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hula
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hula
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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hula m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Etymology edit
Through English from Hawaiian hula.
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hula m (definite singular hulaen, indefinite plural hulaer or hulaar, definite plural hulaene or hulaane)
Polish edit
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hula
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hula
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *xula.
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hula f (Cyrillic spelling хула)
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Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Compare Bikol Central hula and Kapampangan ula.
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hulà (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜎ)
- guess; conjecture; surmise
- prediction; forecast
- Synonym: prediksiyon
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hula (used in the form maghula)
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hula
- to shoot
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hula
- to graze
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From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́da.
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hula