vuvuzela

From Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/ or /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/
• (US) /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelas)

1. A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
   • 2006, Weekend Argus July 15

     When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.

• (trumpet-shaped horn): stadium horn, stadium trumpet

• (trumpet-shaped horn): noisemaker

• vuvuzelist

Borrowed shortly before the South African world cup from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela.

• IPA^(key): /vu.vuˈzeː.laː/, [vu.vuˈzeː.la(ː)]

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• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela m (plural vuvuzela's, diminutive vuvuzelaatje n)

1. vuvuzela [from 2009]

vuvuzela

1. vuvuzela

• vouvouzela

• IPA^(key): /vu.vu.ze.la/

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvuvuzɛlɒ]
• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelák)

1. vuvuzela

vuvuzela f (invariable)

1. vuvuzela

• IPA^(key): /vuvuˈzɛla/

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

• IPA^(key): /ʋuʋuzêla/

vuvuzȅla f (Cyrillic spelling вувузе̏ла)

1. vuvuzela

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋu.ʋu.ze.ɫa/

vuvuzela f (genitive singular vuvuzely, nominative plural vuvuzely, declension pattern of žena)

1. vuvuzela

From Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /bubuˈθela/, [buβuˈθela]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /bubuˈsela/, [buβuˈsela]

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

vuvuzela c

1. vuvuzela

• IPA^(key): [vuvuˈzɛɫɑ]

vuvuzela (definite accusative vuvuzelayı, plural vuvuzelalar)

1. vuvuzela