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Noa

adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo. New-Zealand, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    Initialism of Nintendo of America. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Nintendo of America. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish Noa, a surname mostly found in Cuba. The surname could also derive from German Noä.

Etymology 2

From the Polynesian term noa, e.g. Hawaiian noa (“free of taboo”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Māori noa.

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