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lolo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lolo"

English edit

Etymology edit

From Tagalog lolo.

Noun edit

lolo (plural lolos)

  1. (Philippines) a grandfather

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Adangme edit

Adverb edit

lolo

  1. not yet

Antillean Creole edit

Noun edit

lolo

  1. penis

Bikol Central edit

Etymology edit

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

Noun edit

lolo (feminine lola)

  1. grandfather
    Maugma si lola kasuhapon nin huli ta nag-abot si lolo.
    Grandmother was happy yesterday because Grandfather came.

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: lo‧lo

Noun edit

lolo (feminine lola)

  1. a grandfather
    Synonym: uyong
  2. a granduncle
  3. a cousin of one's grandparents
  4. An affectionate or honorific term for an elderly man

Fijian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Oceanic *lolo, cognate with Samoan lololo and Rarotongan roro.

Noun edit

lolo

  1. coconut cream, coconut milk

References edit

  • Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lolo.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  • Gatty, Ronald (2009) “lolo”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 145

French edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeia and/or childish repetition of lait

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /lo.lo/
  • Audio(file)

Noun edit

lolo m (plural lolos)

  1. (childish) milk
  2. (colloquial and Ivory Coast slang) boob, titty
    • 2017, “Pause”, Elow’N (lyrics), performed by Kiff No Beat:
      Bébé quand tu seras pas là, je vais me bolo
      Je vais faire en sorte de ne jamais oublier ton kpê et tes lolos
      Pourtant j’ai gbra toutes les petites gos
      Mais apparemment c’est pas moi qu’il te faut
      Baby if you won’t be there, I will toss off
      I will make sure not to forget your quim and your honkers
      Nonetheless I have fucked all the kweng
      But apparently it isn’t I for whom you long

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Hawaiian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Polynesian *roro related to Proto-Polynesian *lolo.[1][2]

Noun edit

lolo

  1. brain
  2. bone marrow
  3. coconut heart or coconut apple, i.e. spongy cotyledon from a sprouting coconut
    Synonym: iho

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References edit

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “roro.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  2. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “lolo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 211

Hawaiian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Hawaiian lōlō.

Adjective edit

lolo

  1. stupid, dumb
    Dass so lolo!
    That's so dumb!

Kapingamarangi edit

Noun edit

lolo

  1. oil

Karao edit

Noun edit

lolo

  1. grandfather

Makasar edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

lolo (Lontara spelling ᨒᨚᨒᨚ)

  1. young

Malagasy edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

lolo

  1. butterfly

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

lolo

  1. ghost

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

Adjective edit

lolo

  1. nominative singular masculine of lola (“unsteady, eager”)

Romani edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit लोहित (lohita),[1][2] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwdʰitas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Adjective edit

lolo (feminine loli, plural lole)

  1. red

Descendants edit

  • Kalo Finnish Romani: loolo
  • Tavringer Romani: lollo, lolo
  • Erromintxela: lolo

References edit

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lṓhita”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650
  2. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “loló”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 169b

Further reading edit

  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “lol/o, -i pl. -e”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 226b

Sambali edit

Noun edit

lolò

  1. sorrow

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Lolita, the protagonist of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, or short form of pololo from Mapudungun püḻü (“fly”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈlolo/ [ˈlo.lo]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Syllabification: lo‧lo

Adjective edit

lolo (feminine lola, masculine plural lolos, feminine plural lolas)

  1. (colloquial, Chile) young, teen, juvenile (person)

Noun edit

lolo m (plural lolos, feminine lola, feminine plural lolas)

  1. (colloquial, Chile) kid, boy, girl

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Further reading edit

Sundanese edit

Romanization edit

lolo

  1. Romanization of ᮜᮧᮜᮧ

Swazi edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun edit

lolo

  1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from a reduplication of the last syllable of Spanish abuelo, possibly also influenced by mimicking other likewise reduplicated syllable direct family terms like nana, tata, mama, papa, kaka, nene, etc. Compare lelong, lola, lelang, ninong, ninang, etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈlolo/, [ˈlo.lo]
  • Hyphenation: lo‧lo

Noun edit

lolo (feminine lola, Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. grandfather
    Synonyms: lelong, ingkong, mamay, apo, abwelo, (archaic) agwelo, (dialectal) amama
    Masaya ang lola kahapon dahil dumating ang lolo.
    Grandmother was happy yesterday because Grandfather came.
  2. (colloquial) term of address for an old man
    Synonyms: tatay, ingkong

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Zulu edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

lolo

  1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

Inflection edit

Stem -lólo
Full form lólo
Locative kulolo
Full form lólo
Locative kulolo
Copulative yilolo
Possessive forms
Modifier Substantive
Class 1 walolo owalolo
Class 2 balolo abalolo
Class 3 walolo owalolo
Class 4 yalolo eyalolo
Class 5 lalolo elalolo
Class 6 alolo awalolo
Class 7 salolo esalolo
Class 8 zalolo ezalolo
Class 9 yalolo eyalolo
Class 10 zalolo ezalolo
Class 11 lwalolo olwalolo
Class 14 balolo obalolo
Class 15 kwalolo okwalolo
Class 17 kwalolo okwalolo

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