hoya
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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]
- Rhymes: -oʝa
- Syllabification: ho‧ya
- Homophone: (ll-y neutralization) olla
Noun
[edit]hoya f (plural hoyas)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hoya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Xhosa
[edit]Etymology
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Verb
[edit]-hoya?
- (transitive) to pay attention to
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
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- en:Dogbane family plants
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