hoka

See also: hȫka

English

Etymology

From Maori [Term?].

Noun

hoka

  1. (New Zealand) Synonym of red codling.

Japanese

Romanization

hoka

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほか

Maori

Etymology 1

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Verb

hoka

  1. to soar, fly
  2. to lift; to hold aloft

Etymology 2

From Proto-Oceanic *soka “to pierce, to stab” (compare with Tongan hoka, Samoan soʻa and Fijian coka).[1][2]

Verb

hoka

  1. to pierce
  2. to point or project sharply upwards
  3. to taper to a sharp point

Derived terms

  • hokahoka
  • tarahoka

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “soka.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 265

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “hoka”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 66-7
  • “hoka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Pangutaran Sama

Adjective

hoka

  1. spacious; roomy; big

Sotho

Verb

hoka

  1. to attach, to hook
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