Noa
adj, name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of Nintendo of America. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 1 Non-taboo; serving to replace a taboo name or term. not-comparable
"It vividly recalls the use of the same epithet in the name The Seven Haley Isles, a seamen's noa term for the Flannan Islands (SGS, xi, 88). A further striking parallel is offered by Eng. halibut lit. 'holy butt' and its many Germanic cognates, terms which certainly arose in a milieu conditioned by intense superstition[…]"
- 2 Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo. New-Zealand, not-comparable
- 1 A surname.
- 2 Initialism of Nintendo of America. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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More examples"It vividly recalls the use of the same epithet in the name The Seven Haley Isles, a seamen's noa term for the Flannan Islands (SGS, xi, 88). A further striking parallel is offered by Eng. halibut lit. 'holy butt' and its many Germanic cognates, terms which certainly arose in a milieu conditioned by intense superstition[…]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Noa, a surname mostly found in Cuba. The surname could also derive from German Noä.
From the Polynesian term noa, e.g. Hawaiian noa (“free of taboo”).
Borrowed from Māori noa.
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