hoya

See also: Hoya

English
Hoya bella

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

hoya (plural hoyas)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Hoya


Anagrams

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.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hɔːja/
This o is pronounced long.[2]

Verb

hoya (infinitive kũhoya)

  1. to ask for, to beg for[3][4][2]
    kũhoya ũhoro[2] - to ask for information
    kũhoya ũhoro wa[2] - to ask about
  2. to pray[3]

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • mũhoi class 1

(Proverbs)

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. “hoya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 165. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  4. Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 198, 229, 241.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fovea. Doublet of fóvea.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈoɟ͡ʝa/, [ˈoʝa]

Noun

hoya f (plural hoyas)

  1. pit
  2. grave

Further reading

Xhosa

Etymology

Verb

-hoya?

  1. (transitive) to pay attention to

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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