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Spanish: ohe, ah.

Date "AHOY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Ahoy \A*hoy"\, interj. [from Old English expression, interj. hoy.]. (references)


Extended Definition: Ahoy

Ahoy

Ahoy can refer to:

  • The well-known sailor's interjection, meaning "hello" and/or "what's going on?"
  • Ahoy! (magazine), a magazine that used to be published about Commodore computers
  • Ahoy Rotterdam, an indoor sports arena and concert venue in Rotterdam in the Netherlands
  • Ahoy-hoy, suggested by Alexander Graham Bell as a proper telephone answer
  • AHOY, standing for Australian Humanist of the Year, awarded annually by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies
  • Ahoy is currently being used as an ad slogan by the men's grooming line Old Spice

Ahoj (pronounced: ahoy) can refer to:

  • a Czech and Slovak word meaning "Hi!" (used as an everyday greeting by the Czechs and Slovaks)
  • a part of Bratislava, Slovakia

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ahoy"



Topics by Level of Interest: AHOY

Topics sorted by level of InterestLevel (1=low, 600=high)   Topics sorted AlphabeticallyLevel (1=low, 600=high)
Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy18   Ahoy3
Sheep Ahoy11   Ahoy Rotterdam7
Ship Ahoy7   Club Lake Ahoy3
Ahoy Rotterdam7   Ducks Ahoy2
Club Lake Ahoy3   Land Ahoy3
Land Ahoy3   Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy18
Yoho Ahoy3   Sheep Ahoy11
Ahoy3   Ship Ahoy7
Ducks Ahoy2   Yoho Ahoy3

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: AHOY
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 hoy.
Consider also: barge, flatboat, igniter, ignitor.
Source: Eve, based on meta analysis. Top

Computed Synonyms: AHOY

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   10.0095   ahoy     hallo     hello, hullo, hi, halloo, hey   
 2   9.1097   ahoy     hey     say, hello, hallo, hi, heigh   
 3   8.3098   ahoy     hoy     hey, hi, heigh, hollo, barge   
 4   8.0096   ahoy     hi     hello, hallo, hey, hullo, cheerio   
 5   7.0094   ahoy     hello     hallo, hi, hullo, good morning, good afternoon   
 6   4.0096   ahoy     oh     ah, alas, ouch, ow, o   
 7   4.0095   ahoy     hollo     holloa, cry, hallo, shout, yell   
 8   4.0094   ahoy     heigh     hey, hi, hoy, halloo, I say   
 9   3.0094   ahoy     hullo     hallo, hello, hi, welcome, hellos   
 10   2.1097   ahoy     why     wherefore, what for, reason, how, what   
 11   2.1096   ahoy     say     tell, speak, talk, saying, call   
 12   2.0297   ahoy     aha     ah, oh, ow, Ha, there   
 13   2.0097   ahoy     Ho     hey, hoy, hollo, halloo, wow   
 14   2.0095   ahoy     here     hither, there, herein, now, over here   
 15   2.0094   ahoy     eider     eiderdown, comforter, feather bed, down comforter, duvet   
--------------------     38 synonyms ranked from 16 to 53 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: AHOY

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   3.1095   ahoy     I say     heigh, I tell, say   
 2   2.0092   ahoy     now then     then, now, thus   
 3   2.0087   ahoy     western Sahara     hey, eider, what   
 4   1.0191   ahoy     man alive     look alive, for God's sake, for heaven's sake   
 5   1.0190   ahoy     and so what     halloo, gad, tell it to the Marines   
 6   1.0188   ahoy     at that place     over there, yonder, there   
 7   1.0093   ahoy     so long     goodbye, bye, pip pip   
 8   1.0093   ahoy     see you     see you soon, goodbye, so long   
 9   1.0092   ahoy     hi there     hi, hello, hullo   
 10   1.0091   ahoy     look here     heigh, I say, look   
 11   1.0090   ahoy     over there     yonder, at that place, there   
 12   1.0078   ahoy     tell it to the Marines     well, its, by no means   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: AHOY

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.4493   ahoy there     ahoy     hallo, hey   
 2   1.3193   hollo ahoy     hello     hallo, hi   
 3   1.0195   ship ahoy     sail Ho         
 4   1.0191   hollo ahoy     alack     alas, ah   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: AHOY

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bahasa Indonesia seruan untuk memanggil orang (ahoy), seruan (ejaculation, exclamation, cry, invocation, ejaculations). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski хей (hallo, hollo, ahoy, hi, Ho), ей (ahoy, hallo, here, hi, hollo), ало (hello, hallo, ahoy). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) khey (hallo, hollo, ahoy, hi, Ho), ey (ahoy, hallo, here, hi, hollo), alo (hello, hallo, ahoy). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian ahoj (hello, bye, hallo, hi, ahoy), hola (ahoy, halloo, holla), hola hou (ahoy). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese olá (hello, ahoy, hey, hi, greetings), eh (ahoy, eider, hey, western Sahara). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian хей (hallo, hollo, ahoy, hi, Ho), ей (ahoy, hallo, here, hi, hollo), ало (hello, hallo, ahoy). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) khey (hallo, hollo, ahoy, hi, Ho), ey (ahoy, hallo, here, hi, hollo), alo (hello, hallo, ahoy). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Tai คำอุทานแสดงการยินดีหรือการต้อนรับ (ahoy). Additional references: Central Tai, Thailand, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina ahoj (hello, bye, hallo, hi, ahoy), hola (ahoy, halloo, holla), hola hou (ahoy). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 喂 (hallo, hello, hey, telephone greeting, to feed). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 喂 (hello, hey, telephone greeting, to feed, ahoy). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech ahoj (hello, bye, hallo, hi, ahoy), hola (ahoy, halloo, holla), hola hou (ahoy). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Daco-Rumanian hei (hey, hullo, ahoy, hallo, heigh), ei (its, they, well, ahoy, and so what). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Dari ندا و خبر براى مواقع سالم (ahoy), نداوخبربرای مواقع سلام (ahoy), ندا و خبر براي مواقع سلا م (ahoy), ندا و خبر براى مواقع سلام (ahoy, hello). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch ahoi (ahoy), Boot voraus (ship ahoy). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch heiho (ahoy), ahoi! (ahoy). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish hoi (alack, hello, hollo ahoy). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Gaelg Hoy (ahoy). Additional references: Gaelg, United Kingdom, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Gailck Hoy (ahoy). Additional references: Gailck, United Kingdom, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
German ahoi (ahoy), Boot voraus (ship ahoy). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek επιφώνημα χαιρετισμού ναύτου (ahoy). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) epifonima khairetismou nautoi (ahoy). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 어어이 (ahoy, hoy, holla), 【항해】 어어이! (ahoy). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 어어이 (ahoy, hoy, holla), 【항해】 어어이! (ahoy). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew קריאה של ימאים (ahoy). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
High German ahoi (ahoy), Boot voraus (ship ahoy). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch ahoi (ahoy), Boot voraus (ship ahoy). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Indonesian seruan untuk memanggil orang (ahoy), seruan (ejaculation, exclamation, cry, invocation, ejaculations). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian olà! (ahoy, hey, ho, holla, hollo), ehi! (ahoy, hey, hi, look, now then), ehi (hello, hallo, halloa, halloo, hallow), di bordo! (Ship ahoy). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit קריאה של ימאים (ahoy). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese おーい (ahoy, hello, hollo, holloa, hoy). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 어어이 (ahoy, hoy, holla), 【항해】 어어이! (ahoy). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Lietuvi visi prie darbo (all hands ahoy). Additional references: Lietuvi, Lithuania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Litauische visi prie darbo (all hands ahoy). Additional references: Litauische, Lithuania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Litewski visi prie darbo (all hands ahoy). Additional references: Litewski, Lithuania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Lithuanian visi prie darbo (all hands ahoy). Additional references: Lithuanian, Lithuania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Litovskiy visi prie darbo (all hands ahoy). Additional references: Litovskiy, Lithuania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Liutuviskai visi prie darbo (all hands ahoy). Additional references: Liutuviskai, Lithuania, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Manx Hoy (ahoy). Additional references: Manx, United Kingdom, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Manx Gaelic Hoy (ahoy). Additional references: Manx Gaelic, United Kingdom, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Moldavian hei (hey, hullo, ahoy, hallo, heigh), ei (its, they, well, ahoy, and so what). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Parsi ندا و خبر براى مواقع سالم (ahoy), نداوخبربرای مواقع سلام (ahoy), ندا و خبر براي مواقع سلا م (ahoy), ندا و خبر براى مواقع سلام (ahoy, hello). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian ندا و خبر براى مواقع سالم (ahoy), نداوخبربرای مواقع سلام (ahoy), ندا و خبر براي مواقع سلا م (ahoy), ندا و خبر براى مواقع سلام (ahoy, hello). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian (Farsi) ندا و خبر براى مواقع سالم (ahoy), نداوخبربرای مواقع سلام (ahoy), ندا و خبر براي مواقع سلا م (ahoy), ندا و خبر براى مواقع سلام (ahoy, hello). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese olá (hello, ahoy, hey, hi, hiatus), eh (ahoy, eider, hey, western Sahara). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Romanian hei (hey, hullo, ahoy, hallo, heigh), ei (its, they, well, ahoy, and so what). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Rumanian hei (hey, hullo, ahoy, hallo, heigh), ei (its, they, well, ahoy, and so what). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi ohoj (ahoy). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Serbian (transliteration) hej (ahoy, heigh, hollo, hoy, whoopee), ej (ahoy, EH, hallo, hey). Additional references: Serbian (transliteration), ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Siamese คำอุทานแสดงการยินดีหรือการต้อนรับ (ahoy). Additional references: Siamese, Thailand, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish ohe (ahoy), ah del barco (ahoy, ahoy there), ah (aha, oh, ah, Ha, ahoy), barco a la vista (sail Ho, ship ahoy), tierra a la vista (land ahoy). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Standard Thai คำอุทานแสดงการยินดีหรือการต้อนรับ (ahoy). Additional references: Standard Thai, Thailand, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea hoi (alack, hello, hollo ahoy). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi hoi (alack, hello, hollo ahoy). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska ohoj (ahoy). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish ohoj (ahoy). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Thai คำอุทานแสดงการยินดีหรือการต้อนรับ (ahoy). Additional references: Thai, Thailand, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Thaiklang คำอุทานแสดงการยินดีหรือการต้อนรับ (ahoy). Additional references: Thaiklang, Thailand, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish yahu (ahoy, egad, hallo, hullo, man alive), hey (hello, hey, halloo, here, ahoy). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian ей (ahoy, hoy, halloo, hey, hi). Additional references: Ukrainian, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian (transliteration) ey (ahoy, hoy, halloo, hey, hi). Additional references: Ukrainian, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Urdu ہو ۔ ہوت ۔ ابے ۔ اگے (aha, ahoy). Additional references: Urdu, Pakistan, India, ahoy. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: AHOY

Language Translations for “ahoy” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athagahathagoy (ahoy). Additional references: Athag, ahoy. (volunteer)
Double Dutch agahagoy (ahoy). Additional references: Double Dutch, ahoy. (volunteer)
Esperanto hoj (ahoy). Additional references: Esperanto, ahoy. (volunteer)
Leet ^}{()j (ahoy). Additional references: Leet, ahoy. (volunteer)
Oppish opahopoy (ahoy). Additional references: Oppish, ahoy. (volunteer)
Pig Latin ahoyway (ahoy). Additional references: Pig Latin, ahoy. (volunteer)
Terran B hey (ahoy). Additional references: Terran B, ahoy. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubahuboy (ahoy). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, ahoy. (volunteer)
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