loa
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Etymology edit
From Haitian Creole lwa.
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Noun edit
loa (plural loas or loa)
- In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
- 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:
- Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.
- 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 3:
- Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 714:
- Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa (Haitian equivalent of orisha) Dambala Wèdo.
Translations edit
spirits of voodoo
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Estonian edit
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loa
Galician edit
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loa
- inflection of loar:
Hawaiian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *loa.
Pronunciation edit
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loa
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loa
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from translingual Loa.
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Noun edit
loa f (plural loe)
Further reading edit
- loa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Malagasy edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luaq (compare Malay luak).
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loa
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Focus (Voice) | |
Agent (Active) |
man-form: mandoa |
mi-form: -- | |
om-form: -- | |
Patient (Passive) |
loa |
alternate: -- | |
a-form: aloa | |
voa-form: voaloa | |
tafa-form: -- | |
Goal (Relative) |
an-form: andoavana |
i-form: -- |
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
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loa (present tense loar, past tense loa, past participle loa, passive infinitive loast, present participle loande, imperative loa/lo)
- Alternative spelling of loe
Etymology 2 edit
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loa f
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- Hyphenation: lo‧a
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
loa f (plural loas)
Etymology 2 edit
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loa
- inflection of loar:
Spanish edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
loa f (plural loas)
- praise
- Synonyms: alabanza, halago, elogio, enaltecimiento
- 2022 August 23, Javier G. Cuesta, “Rusia convierte el funeral de Daria Dugina en un alegato para justificar el asedio a Ucrania”, in El País[1]:
- La última despedida de Daria Dugina, asesinada la noche del pasado sábado en plena carretera en las afueras de Moscú con una bomba adosada a su coche, se ha convertido este martes en una loa a favor de la victoria rusa sobre Ucrania.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2 edit
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loa
- inflection of loar:
Further reading edit
- “loa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
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- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈlowa/ [ˈloː.wɐ]
- Rhymes: -owa
- Syllabification: lo‧a
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Tswana edit
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lôa (perfect loile)
- to bewitch
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Vietnamese edit
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Sino-Vietnamese word from 螺 (“spiral shell”).
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(classifier cái) loa
- megaphone (portable device used to amplify a person's voice)
- (by extension) speaker; loudspeaker
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