hula

• hula-hula, hula hula, (obsolete) hura

Borrowed from Hawaiian hula.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhuːlə/
• (General American) enPR: ho͞oʹlə, IPA^(key): /ˈhulə/
• Rhymes: -uːlə
• Hyphenation: hu‧la

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.

• hula hoop

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

1. (intransitive) To dance the hula.

• haul

• hulahula

From English hula, from Hawaiian hula.

• Hyphenation: hu‧la

hula

1. hula; a form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there

hula

1. to dance the hula

hula

1. hula

• halu, luha

hū̀lā f (plural huluna)

1. cap, hat

• IPA^(key): /ˈhu.la/, [ˈhulə]

hula

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

hula

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

• hoʻohula

• English: hula
• Japanese: フラ

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʏːla/
• Rhymes: -ʏːla

hula f (genitive singular hulu, nominative plural hulur)

1. mist, haze
2. veil, cover

• (mist): móða
• (veil): blæja, hjúpur, slæða, skýla, slör

• hylja (“to hide, to conceal”)

hula

1. h-prothesized form of ula

hula

1. Obsolete spelling of wula

• hulen

hula m or f

1. definite feminine singular of hule

hula f (Cyrillic spelling хула)

1. blasphemy

• huljenje