noa

Borrowed from Maori.

noa (not comparable)

1. (New Zealand, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.

   The power of the spoken word has meant that some dangerous things are not mentioned by their "real" names, but by noa terms, like gullfot (literally "golden foot") for "wolf", or tallbjörn (literally "pine bear"), granoxe (literally: "fir ox"), trädräv (literally: "tree fox") or granälg (literally: "fir elk") for "squirrel".[1]

• AON, NAO, Nao, OAN, ONA, Ona, ano-, nao

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• IPA^(key): /noa/ [no.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Hyphenation: no‧a

noa

1. First-person singular (ni) present indicative form of joan (“to go”).

noa

1. know

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 244.

noa

1. (anatomy) cheek

noa

1. genitive singular of nuga

noa

1. release from taboo restrictions
2. a commoner

noa

1. (stative) free of taboo, profane

• hoʻonoa
• lā noa

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• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Hyphenation: nò‧a

noa m (uncountable)

1. that which is noa

   Antonym: tabù

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

• -ano, -ona, ano

From Middle Irish núa, from Old Irish nuae, Proto-Celtic *nouyos (compare Welsh newydd, Breton nevez), from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos.

• (Southern Manx) IPA^(key): /noː/

noa

1. new, fresh, novel, recent

   Hug eh ennym noa er hene.

   He assumed a new name.

   (literally, “He put a new name on himself.”)

• Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects Volume I, Heinrich Wagner, page 78

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.a/, [ˈnɔ.ɐ]

noa

1. merely, suddenly, unintentionally, etc. Denotes an absence of limitations or conditions. (Follows immediately after the word.)

• noa ake
• noa atu
• noa iho

noa

1. to be unrestricted

Compare Big Nambas nauei.

noa

1. water

• ABVD, citing D. T. Tryon, New Hebrides Languages: An internal classification (1976, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics); also listed under the place-name Alavas 1 / 2, citing Aviva Shimelman

noa

1. (non-standard since 1959)feminine singular of noen

From Old Galician-Portuguese noa, from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese nõa, from Vulgar Latin of Iberia *nona, from proto-Romanic *nona, from Vulgar Latin *nona, from Latin nōna, feminine of nōnus (“ninth”).[1] Doublet of Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, and Italian nona (“ninth”).

• Hyphenation: no‧a

noa f (uncountable)

1. nones

   O clérigo, que dizia sempre suas orações, dessa vez esqueceu-se-lhe da noa.

   The priest, who had always said her hours, that time forgot the nones.

From Old Frisian nā. Cognates include West Frisian nee and English no.

• IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• Hyphenation: noa
• Rhymes: -ɔː

noa

1. no

• jee

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “noa”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

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-noa (infinitive kunoa)

1. to sharpen something
2. to not understand something

• IPA^(key): [ˈno.a]
• Hyphenation: no‧a

From Proto-Polynesian *noqa. Cognates include Tuvaluan noa and Samoan noa.

noa

1. (transitive) to bind, tie

noa

1. Expresses the unimportance of the preceding word; just, mere, only

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 252

• IPA^(key): /no.a/

noa

1. zero