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Hoa vs Loa - What's the difference?

hoa | loa |

As an interjection hoa

is ho; hey; a call for attention.

As a noun loa is

in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.

As an initialism LOA is

leave of absence.

hoa

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (obsolete) ho; hey; a call for attention
  • * (David Garrick)
    • Hoa , who is within here?
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    loa

    English

    (wikipedia loa)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 714:
    • Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa'' (Haitian equivalent of ''orisha ) Dambala Wèdo.

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