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.

Derived terms

• hula hoop

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To dance the hula.

Anagrams

• haul

Finnish

Noun

hula

1. hula

Declension

Anagrams

• halu

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

Synonyms

• huljenje