noa

1. not comparablehuman sciencesNon-taboo; serving to replace a taboo name or term.

   Blå Jungfrun […] is a noa name. The tabooed name of this island is Blåkulla, Blue Hill (or Rock), a recurring name of the home of the witches in the North.

   2015 October 31, Heidrun Stebergløkken, Ragnhild Berge, Eva Lindgaard, Ritual Landscapes and Borders within Rock Art Research: Papers in Honour of Professor Kalle Sognnes, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 145

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   It vividly recalls the use of the same epithet in the name The Seven Haley Isles, a seamen's noa term for the Flannan Islands (SGS, xi, 88). A further striking parallel is offered by Eng. halibut lit. 'holy butt' and its many Germanic cognates, terms which certainly arose in a milieu conditioned by intense superstition[…]

   1968, Scottish Gaelic Studies, page 25

   The power of the spoken word has meant that some dangerous things are not mentioned by their "real" names, but by noa terms, like gullfot (literally "golden foot") for "wolf", or tallbjörn (literally "pine bear"), granoxe (literally: "fir ox"), trädräv (literally: "tree fox") or granälg (literally: "fir elk") for "squirrel".

   2002, O. Bandle, editor, The Nordic Languages, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 291

1. New Zealandnot comparableamong the MaoriNon-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.

   Antonyms: tapu

plural Noas

1. A surname.

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of Nintendo of America.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Nintendo of America.