Honda

See also: honda

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

Proper noun

Honda (plural Hondas)

1. A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer, named after its founder, Soichiro Honda.
   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 358:

     they left on Sonnyʼs seventeenth birthday present — the Honda motorbike heʼd begged them to buy him

2. A brand of car manufactured by Honda, or a car of this brand.
   • 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 86:

     Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.

3. A motorbike manufactured by Honda.

Translations

automotive manufacturer

• Arabic: هُونْدَا (ar) f (hūndā), هُونْدَا (ar) f (hondā)
• Bulgarian: Хо́нда f (Hónda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本田 (zh) (Běntián)

• Hindi: होंडा m (hoṇḍā)
• Japanese: 本田 (Honda), ホンダ (Honda)
• Korean: 혼다 (Honda)
• Marathi: हॉन्डा f (hŏnḍā)
• Polish: Honda (pl) f
• Russian: Хо́нда f (Xónda)

Further reading

• Honda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Honda (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dohan, had on

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

Proper noun

Honda m or f

1. a Japanese automotive manufacturer
2. a brand of car manufactured by Honda, or a car of this brand

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhondɒ]
• Hyphenation: Hon‧da
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Proper noun

Honda

1. a Japanese automotive manufacturer
2. a brand of car manufactured by Honda, or a car of this brand

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Honda	Hondák
accusative	Hondát	Hondákat
dative	Hondának	Hondáknak
instrumental	Hondával	Hondákkal
causal-final	Hondáért	Hondákért
translative	Hondává	Hondákká
terminative	Hondáig	Hondákig
essive-formal	Hondaként	Hondákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Hondában	Hondákban
superessive	Hondán	Hondákon
adessive	Hondánál	Hondáknál
illative	Hondába	Hondákba
sublative	Hondára	Hondákra
allative	Hondához	Hondákhoz
elative	Hondából	Hondákból
delative	Hondáról	Hondákról
ablative	Hondától	Hondáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Hondáé	Hondáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Hondáéi	Hondákéi

Possessive forms of Honda
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Hondám	Hondáim
2nd person sing.	Hondád	Hondáid
3rd person sing.	Hondája	Hondái
1st person plural	Hondánk	Hondáink
2nd person plural	Hondátok	Hondáitok
3rd person plural	Hondájuk	Hondáik

Derived terms

• hondás

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈon.da/
• Rhymes: -onda
• Hyphenation: Hón‧da

Proper noun

Honda ?

1. a Japanese automotive manufacturer
2. a brand of car manufactured by Honda, or a car of this brand

Japanese

Romanization

Honda

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほんだ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ホンダ

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

Proper noun

Honda f

1. a Japanese automotive manufacturer

Proper noun

Honda m

1. a brand of car manufactured by Honda, or a car of this brand

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).

Proper noun

Honda ?

1. a Japanese automotive manufacturer
2. a brand of car manufactured by Honda, or a car of this brand