different between maila vs joe

Finnish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Metathesis took place in order to avoid the form *malja, which would have been homonymous with malja (“goblet, bowl, cup, chalice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i?l?/, [?m?i?l?]
• Rhymes: -?il?
• Syllabification: mai?la

Noun

maila

1. (sports) an implement used to handle the object being played with, such as a ball or a puck; translation into English depends on the kind of implement and the particular sport
   1. (tennis, squash (sport), badminton) racket
   2. (baseball, cricket, pesäpallo) bat
   3. (field hockey or ice hockey) stick
   4. (golf) club
   5. (table tennis) paddle
   6. (polo, croquet) mallet
2. (pinball) flipper

Declension

References

Anagrams

• ilmaa, limaa, maali, malia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.la/

Verb

maila

1. third-person singular past historic of mailer

Anagrams

• lamai, Lamia

Hawaiian

Etymology

From mai (“hither”) +? l? (“there, then”)

Particle

maila

1. hither, this way, towards the speaker

Synonyms

• mai

Antonyms

• akula, aku

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /d?o?/
• Homophones: Jo, Joe
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From the proper name Joe.

Noun

joe (plural joes)

1. (informal) A male; a guy; a fellow.

   I'm just an ordinary joe.

2. (historical) Synonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”)

Alternative forms

• Joe

Derived terms

• half joe
• joe job

Translations

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin. See cup of joe for more.

Noun

joe (countable and uncountable, plural joes)

1. (chiefly US, informal) Coffee.
   • 2010, Melody Carlson, A Mile in My Flip-Flops (page 221)

     Some people say I make the best joe in town. But you know there's a kiosk over on Eighteenth Avenue, not that far from here.

Related terms

• cup of joe

Etymology 3

Noun

joe (plural joes)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of jo (“a darling or sweetheart”)
   • 1836 Joanna Baillie The Phantom, Act 2. Provost, to a maidservant.

     I fear, my joe, the good that I can do him,
     Or ev'n the minister, if he were here,
     Would be but little.

Dalmatian

Pronoun

joe f (plural jai)

1. (third-person feminine singular pronoun, oblique case) her

Related terms

• jala
• joi (masculine)
• jai

Dutch

Interjection

joe

1. (colloquial) bye

   Joe! - Bye!

Old French

Noun

joe f (oblique plural joes, nominative singular joe, nominative plural joes)

1. cheek

Descendants

• French: joue

Sranan Tongo

Pronoun

joe

1. Superseded spelling of yu.