different between hoya vs moya

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

hoya (plural hoyas)

1. Any plant of the genus Hoya

Translations

Anagrams

• ahoy

Japanese

Romanization

hoya

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

• hooya

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuhoiya as an equivalent of English pray in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuvoiya as its equivalent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??ja/

This o is pronounced long.

Verb

hoya (infinitive k?hoya)

1. to ask for, to beg for

2. to pray

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• m?hoi 1

(Proverbs)

• ngi nd?hoyagwo thakame
• ng'aragu nd?hoyagwo ?horo

References

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fovea. Doublet of fóvea.

Pronunciation

Noun

hoya f (plural hoyas)

1. pit
2. grave

Related terms

• hoyo

Further reading

• “hoya” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-hoya^?

1. (transitive) to pay attention to

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

English

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Noun

moya (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, geology) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [from 1800s–1930s]
   • 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:

     These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.

Synonyms

• mud lava, volcanic mud, tufaceous mud

Further reading

• moya in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• moya in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Anagrams

• Amoy, Mayo, mayo

Buruwai

Noun

moya

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. air
2. wind

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

môya

1. wind

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. wind

Rawang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?(?).ja?/

Noun

moya

1. colour.

Synonyms

• nv?mya

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3 (uncountable)

1. wind

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3

1. wind