haloo

haloo (third-person singular simple present haloos, present participle halooing, simple past and past participle halooed)

1. Dated form of halloo.
   • 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:

     Scenes shifting, trumpets sounding, mobs halooing, carpets spreading, guards bustling from one door to another; gods, demons, daggers, racks, and ratsbane.

haloo (plural haloos)

1. Dated form of halloo.

• ahool

From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs).

• IPA^(key): /haˈloo/

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• Rhymes: -oo
• Syllabification: ha‧lo‧o

haloo (accusative singular haloon, plural halooj, accusative plural haloojn)

1. (astronomy) halo

• “haloo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “haloo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from Swedish hallå.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑloː/, [ˈhɑ̝lo̞ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑloː
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧loo
• Hyphenation^(key): ha‧loo

haloo

1. hello (greeting used when answering the telephone; call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening; also used sarcastically)
2. (colloquial) come on (used to express disapproval of or exasperation for what someone has said or done)

   Hei haloo, et sä nyt noin voi tehdä.

   Hey come on, you can't do that.

haloo (colloquial)

1. hullabaloo

• “haloo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023