hoop

(Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. (countable, uncountable) Any circular band or ring.
3. (countable, uncountable) A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
5. (countable, uncountable) A quart-pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
6. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
7. (countable, uncountable) The rim part of a basketball net.
8. (US, countable, in-plural, metonymically, uncountable) The game of basketball.
9. (countable, uncountable) A hoop earring.
10. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
11. (Australia, broadly, countable, metonymically, slang, uncountable) A jockey.
12. (countable, figuratively, plural-normally, uncountable) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
13. (uncountable) Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
14. (slang, uncountable) A significant amount of swing from the bowler.
15. (countable) An apparatus.
16. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) An apparatus.

Verb

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
3. (intransitive, slang) To play basketball.

Verb

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/huːp/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: hoop

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: hōp

Hevwate bi Saterfriesisch: Houp

Hevwate bi holendî: hoep

Hevwate bi Old Norse: hóp

Hevwate bi lîtwanî: kabė

Hevwate bi slaviya kenîseyî: кѫпъ

In summary

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Hevwate

ring

💍

loop

➿

circle

⭕

rim

band

basketball hoop

basket

🧺

wicket

wheel

🛞

cough

whoop

race

ratchet

roller

shout

skirt

strip

tire

toggle

tyre

iron band

put a hoop on

bind a barrel with hoops

circular band

bind with hoops

socket slide

nucle us

annulus

hoop band

bind

binding

circlet

collar

cry

😢

fasten

grid

gyre

link

🔗

looping

Werger

cerceau

aro

hoepel

Reifen

obręcz

cerchio

⭕

cercle

⭕

cerchiare

aro

cerchione

anneau

💍

arco

🙇

cercler

💍

circulus

⭕

Reif