Loa vs Lota - What's the difference?
loa | lota |
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:
A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 9:
*:She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water.
(colloquial, Pakistan) A person that switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another. This comes from the fact that the "lota" has a tendency to fall over and roll around, as it is not stable sitting on its base.
As nouns the difference between loa and lota
is that loa is in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings while lota is {{cx|South Asia|lang=en}} A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass.As an initialism LOA
is leave of absence.loa
English
(wikipedia loa)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
