different between loa vs koa

English

Alternative forms

• lwa

Etymology

From Haitian Creole lwa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l???/

Noun

loa (plural loas or loa)

1. In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, p. 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 2007, p. 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 2010, p. 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

Anagrams

• -ola, AOL, Lao, OAL, Ola, ola

Estonian

Noun

loa

1. genitive singular of luba

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo.a/, [?low?]

Noun

loa

1. distance, length

Verb

loa

1. (stative) long, permanent

Derived terms

• Mauna Loa (literally “long mountain”)

Italian

Etymology

From translingual Loa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.a/
• Rhymes: -?a
• Hyphenation: lòa

Noun

loa f (plural loe)

1. Any nematod of the Loa taxonomic genus.

References

• loa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luaq (compare Malay luak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lu.a]

Verb

loa

1. to vomit
2. to pay
3. to discharge

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

loa (present tense loar, past tense loa, past participle loa, passive infinitive loast, present participle loande, imperative lo)

1. Alternative spelling of loe

Etymology 2

Noun

loa f

1. definite singular of lo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• lôa (obsolete)

Etymology

Back-formation from loar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?lo.?/
• Hyphenation: lo?a

Noun

loa f (plural loas)

1. praise
2. (usually in the plural) carol

Spanish

Noun

loa f (plural loas)

1. praise

Related terms

• loar

Verb

loa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of loar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of loar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of loar.

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.a/

Verb

lôa (perfect loile)

1. to bewitch

Derived terms

• moloi

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“spiral shell”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [lwa???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [lwa???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [l???a???]

Noun

(classifier cái) loa

1. megaphone (portable device used to amplify a person's voice)
2. (by extension) speaker; loudspeaker

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian koa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???/

Noun

koa (plural koas or koa)

1. Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 59:

     As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle.

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 122:

     At her funeral, Likelike's body was placed in a polished koa coffin, adorned with sprays of gardenia […].

See also

• koa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, OAK, Oka, oak, oka

Ajië

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koa]

Noun

koa

1. rain

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Bola

Noun

koa

1. grasshopper

References

• Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 3

Garo

Verb

koa

1. to stitch

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *toa (compare Maori toa), from Proto-Oceanic *toRas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teRas (compare Indonesian teras (“heart, pith (of wood)”)).

Noun

koa

1. warrior
2. koa (tree)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Maori toa (“brave”)).

Verb

koa

1. (stative) to be brave, military

Derived terms

• Kekoa

Indonesian

Etymology

From Chinese, probably Hokkien ? (kòa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?koa]
• Hyphenation: koa

Noun

koa (first-person possessive koaku, second-person possessive koamu, third-person possessive koanya)

1. (gaming) a Chinese card game.

Alternative forms

• kua

Further reading

• “koa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.