vuvuzela

English Wikipedia has an article on:

vuvuzela

Wikipedia

Borrowed from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/ or /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/
• (US) /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelas)

1. A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
   • 2006 July 15, Weekend Argus:

     When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.

   • 2010 June 1, David Pickthall, “Are you ready to make some noise?”, in North-West Evening Mail, UK, retrieved 2 Aug. 2011:

     I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.

   • 2010 June 8, Jeré Longman, “A Bleating Soundtrack for Soccer”, in The New York Times‎:

     For some, the vuvuzelas herald the country’s piercing emergence from the forced racial hush of apartheid.

• (trumpet-shaped horn): stadium horn, stadium trumpet

• (trumpet-shaped horn): noisemaker

• vuvuzelist

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

vuvuzela

Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed shortly before the South African world cup from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela.

• IPA^(key): /vu.vuˈzeː.laː/,

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela m (plural vuvuzela's, diminutive vuvuzelaatje n)

1. vuvuzela

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋuʋuze(ː)lɑ/,
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela

1. vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

French Wikipedia has an article on:

vuvuzela

Wikipedia ^fr

• vouvouzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /vu.vu.ze.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

• “vuvuzela”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

vuvuzela

Wikipedia ^hu

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelák)

1. vuvuzela

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

vuvuzela

Wikipedia ^it

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

vuvuzela f (invariable)

1. vuvuzela

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• Hyphenation: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu to make a vu vu noise, from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /ʋuʋuzêla/

vuvuzȅla f (Cyrillic spelling вувузе̏ла)

1. vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋu.ʋu.ze.ɫa/

vuvuzela f (genitive singular vuvuzely, nominative plural vuvuzely, declension pattern of žena)

1. vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /bubuˈθela/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /bubuˈsela/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: vu‧vu‧ze‧la

vuvuzela f (plural vuvuzelas)

1. vuvuzela

From Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

vuvuzela class IX (plural vuvuzela class X)

1. vuvuzela (a trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound)

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

vuvuzela c

1. vuvuzela

From English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

• IPA^(key):

vuvuzela (definite accusative vuvuzelayı, plural vuvuzelalar)

1. vuvuzela