vuvuzela

Borrowed from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/ or /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/
• (US) /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelas)

1. A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
   • 2006 July 15, Weekend Argus:

     When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.

   • 2010 June 1, David Pickthall, “Are you ready to make some noise?”, in North-West Evening Mail, UK, retrieved 2 Aug. 2011:

     I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.

   • 2010 June 8, Jeré Longman, “A Bleating Soundtrack for Soccer”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     For some, the vuvuzelas herald the country’s piercing emergence from the forced racial hush of apartheid.

• (trumpet-shaped horn): stadium horn, stadium trumpet

• (trumpet-shaped horn): noisemaker

• vuvuzelist

Borrowed shortly before the South African world cup from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela.

• IPA^(key): /vu.vuˈzeː.laː/, [vu.vuˈzeː.la(ː)]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela m (plural vuvuzela's, diminutive vuvuzelaatje n)

1. vuvuzela [from 2009]

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋuʋuze(ː)lɑ/, [ˈʋuʋuˌze̞(ː)lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vu‧vu‧ze‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela

1. vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• vouvouzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /vu.vu.ze.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvuvuzɛlɒ]
• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelák)

1. vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /vuvuˈzela/ [fu.fuˈze.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzela-vuvuzela)

1. (music) vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela” 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.

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

vuvuzela f (invariable)

1. vuvuzela

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “vuvuzela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu to make a vu vu noise, from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /ʋuʋuzêla/

vuvuzȅla f (Cyrillic spelling вувузе̏ла)

1. vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋu.ʋu.ze.ɫa/

vuvuzela f (genitive singular vuvuzely, nominative plural vuvuzely, declension pattern of žena)

1. vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /bubuˈθela/ [bu.β̞uˈθe.la] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /bubuˈsela/ [bu.β̞uˈse.la] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

From Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

vuvuzela class IX (plural vuvuzela class X)

1. vuvuzela (a trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound)

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

vuvuzela c

1. vuvuzela

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): [vuvuˈzɛɫɑ]

vuvuzela (definite accusative vuvuzelayı, plural vuvuzelalar)

1. vuvuzela