koa

Borrowed from Hawaiian koa. Doublet of toa.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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koa (plural koas or koa)

1. A large tree of species Acacia koa (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, published 2011, page 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.

   • 2007 March 18, Anne Eisenberg, “How to Soften the Edges of Technology”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The outer frame is made of koa and maple.

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

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

• koa finch
• koa wilt

• koa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, OAK, Oka, oak, oka

• IPA^(key): [koa]

koa

1. rain

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: 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.

Cognate with German kein.

• IPA^(key): /koɐ̯/

koa

1. no (negation of nouns and adjectives)

koa

1. grasshopper

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

koa

1. to stitch

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

koa

1. warrior
2. koa (tree)

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

koa

1. (stative) to be brave, military

• Kekoa

From Chinese, probably Hokkien 卦 (kòa).

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

koa (plural koa-koa)

1. (gaming) a Chinese card game

• kua

• “koa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

koa

1. horn

• de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 250

• IPA^(key): /koɑ/

koa

1. to gossip

   Synonym: koake

• Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary.

koa

1. soap, foam, lather