hoja
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See also: höja
Noun
hoja
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish foja, from Late Latin folia, from the nominative plural of Latin folium, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). See also folio, borrowed from the Latin. Cognate with English foil and French feuille (“sheet, leaf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hoja f (plural hojas)
- leaf (usually green and flat organ that is the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants)
- petal (an often brightly coloured component of the corolla of a flower)
- blade (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal)
- pad (floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant)
- sheet, leaf (piece of paper, usually rectangular)
- page (one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book)
- form (blank document or template to be filled in by the user)
- foil
- blade (sharp cutting edge of a knife, sword, etc.)
- pane (individual sheet of glass in a window)
- side (of bacon)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- de hoja caduca
- de hoja perenne
- doblar la hoja
- hoja de afeitar
- hoja de cálculo
- hoja de corrimiento
- hoja de Flandes
- hoja de higo
- hoja de lata
- hoja de limón
- hoja de Milán
- hoja de parra
- hoja de ruta
- hoja de servicios
- hoja de té
- hoja de tocino
- hoja de vida
- hoja del aire
- hojalata
- hojaldre
- hojarasca
- hojear
- hojuela
- insecto hoja
- milhojas
- queso de hoja
- soplador de hojas
- soplahojas
- tabaco de hoja
- tirahojas
- volver la hoja
Related terms
Further reading
- “hoja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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