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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Lao ລາວ (lāo).
Pronunciation
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Noun
Lao (countable and uncountable, plural Lao or Laos)
- (countable) A Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.
- (uncountable) The official language of Laos that is closely related to Thai.
Translations
person
- Afrikaans: Laosiaan
- Albanian: laotián m, laotiáne f, laosián (sq) m, laosiáne f,
- Basque: laostar
- Bulgarian: лао́сец m (laósec)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: laosià (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 老撾人／老挝人 (zh) (lǎowōrén)
- Czech: Laosan (cs) m
- Dutch: Laotiaans (nl) n
- Farefare: laoga
- Finnish: laosilainen (fi), lao (fi)
- French: Laotien (fr) m, Laotienne (fr) f
- Galician: laosiano (gl) m
- German: Laote (de) m, Laotin (de) f
- Gujarati: લાઓશિયન (lāośiyan)
- Hindi: लाओशियन (hi) (lāośiyan)
- Hungarian: lao (hu)
- Irish: Laosach m
- Italian: laotiano (it) m, laotiana (it) f
- Japanese: ラオス人 (ラオスじん, raosujin)
- Khmer: លាវ (km) (liəw)
- Korean: 라오스인 (raoseu'in)
- Lao: ຄົນລາວ (khonlāo)
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: laot (no) m
- Nynorsk: laot (nn) m
- Persian: لائوسی (fa) (lâ'osi)
- Polish: Laotańczyk (pl) m, Laotanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: laosiano (pt) m, laociano (pt) m
- Romanian: laoțian (ro) m, laoțiană (ro)
- Russian: лао́сец (ru) m (laósec), лао́ска (ru) f (laóska)
- Spanish: laosiano (es) m, laosiana (es) f, lao (es) pl
- Swedish: laotier (sv) m, laotiska (sv) f
- Tagalog: Laosyano
- Thai: คนลาว (kon-laao)
- Ukrainian: лао́сець m (laósecʹ), лао́ска f (laóska)
- Vietnamese: người Lào
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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language
- Afrikaans: Laosiaans, Lao
- Albanian: laotián, laotianísht, laotísht, laosián (sq), laosianísht, laosísht
- Armenian: լաոսերեն (hy) (laoseren)
- Belarusian: лао́ская f (laóskaja) (мо́ва)
- Bulgarian: лао́ски m (laóski) (ези́к)
- Burmese: (written language) လာအိုစာ (lauica), (spoken language) လာအိုစကား (lauica.ka:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 老撾語／老挝语 (zh) (lǎowōyǔ), 寮文 (liáowén)
- Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: laoština f
- Danish: laotisk c
- Dutch: Laotiaans (nl) n
- Farefare: laore
- Finnish: lao (fi)
- French: laotien (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Laotisch (de), Lao n
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Green Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Gujarati: લાઓશિયન (lāośiyan)
- Hindi: लाओशियन (hi) (lāośiyan)
- Hungarian: lao (hu)
- Indonesian: bahasa Laos
- Irish: Laoisis f
- Italian: laotiano (it)
- Japanese: ラオ語 (ja) (raogo), ラオス語 (ja) (raosugo), ラーオ語 (ja) (ラーオご, rāogo)
- Khmer: ភាសាលាវ (phiəsaaliəw)
- Korean: 라오어 (rao'eo)
- Lao: ພາສາລາວ (lo) (phā sā lāo)
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: Bahasa Lao
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: laotisk (no) m
- Nynorsk: laotisk (nn) m
- Polish: laotański (pl) m
- Portuguese: laosiano (pt) m, laociano (pt) m
- Romanian: laoțiană (ro) f, lao
- Russian: лао́сский (ru) m (laósskij) (язы́к)
- Slovak: laoština f
- Spanish: lao (es)
- Swedish: laotiska (sv) f
- Tagalog: Laosyano
- Thai: ภาษาลาว (paa-sǎa laao)
- Ukrainian: лао́ська f (laósʹka) (мо́ва)
- Vietnamese: tiếng Lào
- Welsh: Laoeg f
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: vahlao
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Adjective
Lao (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Laos, the Lao people or their Kra-Dai Lao language.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to Laos, the people or their language
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Proper noun
Lao
- Synonym of Laosiaans (the Lao language)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Laus, from Ancient Greek Λαός (Laós), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”), common in hydronyms. The first vowel may have derived from an O-grade or from the zero-grade, depending on the language it was borrowed through.
Proper noun
Lao ?
- A river in Calabria
References
- ^ DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992
Anagrams
Tagalog
Etymology
From Hokkien 劉／刘 (Lâu) or 留 (Lâu) & Cantonese 劉／刘 (Lau4), via English Lao. Doublet of Lew and Liu.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lao (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏ᜔)
- a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien
- a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese
See also
Turkish
Proper noun
Lao
- Lao, a person from Laos
Declension
