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hula

hula

English

Noun

hula (plural hulas)

  1. A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 87:
      Under the rule of Kalākaua, they had revived the hula, which had been condemned by the missionaries.

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Translations

Verb

hula (third-person singular simple present hulas, present participle hulaing, simple past and past participle hulaed)

  1. (intransitive) To dance the hula.

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Finnish

Noun

hula

  1. hula

Declension

Inflection of hula (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative hula hulat
genitive hulan hulien
partitive hulaa hulia
illative hulaan huliin
singular plural
nominative hula hulat
accusative nom. hula hulat
gen. hulan
genitive hulan hulien
hulainrare
partitive hulaa hulia
inessive hulassa hulissa
elative hulasta hulista
illative hulaan huliin
adessive hulalla hulilla
ablative hulalta hulilta
allative hulalle hulille
essive hulana hulina
translative hulaksi huliksi
instructive hulin
abessive hulatta hulitta
comitative hulineen

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Hausa

Noun

hū̀lā f (plural huluna)

  1. cap, hat

Hawaiian

Noun

hula

  1. a form of dance native to the Hawaiian Islands
  2. a hula dancer
  3. a chant or song which accompanies the dance

Verb

hula

  1. (transitive) to dance the hula
  2. (transitive) to chant in accompaniment with the dance
  3. (intransitive) to twitch

Derived terms

  • hoʻohula

Descendants

  • English: hula
  • Japanese: フラ

Lower Sorbian

Noun

hula

  1. Obsolete spelling of wula

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

hula f (Cyrillic spelling хула)

  1. blasphemy

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