hoya
See also: Hoya
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name.
Noun edit
hoya (plural hoyas)
- Any plant of the genus Hoya
Translations edit
Anagrams edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
hoya
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records kuhoiya as an equivalent of English pray in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuvoiya as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- This o is pronounced long.[2]
Verb edit
hoya (infinitive kũhoya)
Derived terms edit
(Nouns)
- mũhoi class 1
(Proverbs)
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin fovea. Doublet of fóvea.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hoya f (plural hoyas)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “hoya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Xhosa edit
Etymology edit
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Verb edit
-hoya?
- (transitive) to pay attention to
Inflection edit
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