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haka

haka

See also: häkä

English

Noun

haka (plural hakas or haka)

  1. A traditional dance of New Zealand's Maori people.
    • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
      An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.

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Finnish

Etymology

From a Germanic language, compare Haken.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ha‧ka
  • Rhymes: -ɑkɑ
  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑkɑ/

Noun

haka

  1. hook, clasp (type of fastener)
  2. corral, paddock (enclosure for livestock)

Declension

Inflection of haka (Kotus type 9/kala, k- gradation)
nominative haka haat
genitive haan hakojen
partitive hakaa hakoja
illative hakaan hakoihin
singular plural
nominative haka haat
accusative nom. haka haat
gen. haan
genitive haan hakojen
hakainrare
partitive hakaa hakoja
inessive haassa haoissa
elative haasta haoista
illative hakaan hakoihin
adessive haalla haoilla
ablative haalta haoilta
allative haalle haoille
essive hakana hakoina
translative haaksi haoiksi
instructive haoin
abessive haatta haoitta
comitative hakoineen

Adverb

haka

  1. olla haka jossakin: to be good at something

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaːka/
  • Rhymes: -aːka

Etymology 1

Noun

haka f (genitive singular höku, nominative plural hökur)

  1. (anatomy) chin
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

haka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hakaði, supine hakað)

  1. to pick with a pickaxe
  2. to mark with a check mark (usually with the preposition við)
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

haka

  1. indefinite accusative singular of haki
  2. indefinite dative singular of haki
  3. indefinite genitive singular of haki
  4. indefinite accusative plural of haki
  5. indefinite genitive plural of haki

Japanese

Romanization

haka

  1. rōmaji reading of はか

Kashubian

Noun

haka f

  1. hook

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *sanga (compare Fijian caga).

Noun

haka

  1. a war dance, a haka

Usage notes

Used in the form haka-a.


Nama

Numeral

haka

  1. four

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

haka m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of hake (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

haka f

  1. definite singular of hake (Etymology 1)

Polish

Noun

haka m

  1. genitive singular of hak

Rapa Nui

Verb

haka

  1. to do

Derived terms


Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse haka.

Pronunciation

Noun

haka c

  1. chin, lower part of face

Declension

Inflection of haka 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative haka hakan hakor hakorna
Genitive hakas hakans hakors hakornas

See also

  • haka upp
  • haka fast