loa

See also: Loa, LOA, lóa, loá, lôa, Lóa, and lo'a

English

Alternative forms

• lwa

Etymology

From Haitian Creole lwa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊə/
• Rhymes: -əʊə

Noun

loa (plural loas or loa)

1. In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36:

     Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 3:

     Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 714:

     Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa (Haitian equivalent of orisha) Dambala Wèdo.

Translations

spirits of voodoo

• Japanese: ロア (roa)

Anagrams

• -ola, AOL, Lao, OAL, Ola, ola

Estonian

Noun

loa

1. genitive singular of luba

Galician

Verb

loa

1. inflection of loar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.a/, [ˈlo.wə]

Noun

loa

1. distance, length

Verb

loa

1. (stative) long, permanent

Derived terms

• Hōkūloa (literally “long star”)
• Mauna Loa (literally “long mountain”)
• hikiāloa (literally “to reach a long way”)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Loa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Hyphenation: lò‧a

Noun

loa f (plural loe)

1. any nematod of the Loa taxonomic genus

Further reading

• loa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Lao, alo, alo-, alò, olà

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luaq (compare Malay luak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlu.a]

Verb

loa

1. to vomit
2. to pay
3. to discharge

Related terms

	Focus (Voice)
Agent (Active)	man-form: mandoa
	mi-form: --
	om-form: --
Patient (Passive)	loa
	alternate: --
	a-form: aloa
	voa-form: voaloa
	tafa-form: --
Goal (Relative)	an-form: andoavana
	i-form: --

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

loa (present tense loar, past tense loa, past participle loa, passive infinitive loast, present participle loande, imperative loa/lo)

1. Alternative spelling of loe

Etymology 2

Noun

loa f

1. definite singular of lo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• lôa (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlo(w).ɐ/

• Hyphenation: lo‧a

Etymology 1

Deverbal from loar.

Noun

loa f (plural loas)

1. praise
2. (usually in the plural) carol

Etymology 2

Verb

loa

1. inflection of loar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloa/ [ˈlo.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: lo‧a

Etymology 1

Deverbal from loar.

Noun

loa f (plural loas)

1. praise

   Synonyms: alabanza, halago, elogio, enaltecimiento

   • 2022 August 23, Javier G. Cuesta, “Rusia convierte el funeral de Daria Dugina en un alegato para justificar el asedio a Ucrania”, in El País‎^[1]:

     La última despedida de Daria Dugina, asesinada la noche del pasado sábado en plena carretera en las afueras de Moscú con una bomba adosada a su coche, se ha convertido este martes en una loa a favor de la victoria rusa sobre Ucrania.

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Related terms

• loar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

loa

1. inflection of loar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “loa”, 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

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• lowa, luwa

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish loa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈloa/ [ˈloː.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: lo‧a

Noun

loa (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜏ) (ecclesiastical, poetry)

1. poetic panegyric of eulogy (usually in praise of the Virgin Mary and the saints)

Anagrams

• alo, ola, Lao

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.a/

Verb

lôa (perfect loile)

1. to bewitch

Derived terms

• moloi

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 螺 (“spiral shell”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lwaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [l⁽ʷ⁾aː˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cái) loa

1. megaphone (portable device used to amplify a person's voice)
2. (by extension) speaker; loudspeaker

Anagrams

• lao