lolo

From Tagalog lolo.

lolo (plural lolos)

1. (Philippines) a grandfather

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lolo

1. not yet

lolo

1. penis

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlolo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: lo‧lo

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

1. grandpa; grandfather

   Synonyms: yayo, paye, uelo

2. elderly person

• “lolo”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)
• “lolo - lola”, in Diccionario ortografico de l’aragonés (seguntes la PO de l’EFA)‎, Zaragoza: EDACAR, 2023, →ISSN, page 1516

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

lolo (feminine lola)

1. grandfather

   Maugma si lola kasuhapon nin huli ta nag-abot si lolo.

   Grandmother was happy yesterday because Grandfather came.

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

• Hyphenation: lo‧lo

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

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

lolo

1. coconut cream, coconut milk

• 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

Onomatopoeia and/or childish repetition of lait

• IPA^(key): /lo.lo/

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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

• “lolo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lolo (“soft or spongy matter, brains”) from Proto-Polynesian *lolo “coconut milk or oil”^[1] (compare with Samoan lolo, Tongan lolo)^[2][3] from Proto-Oceanic *lolo (“ibid.”, compare with Fijian lolo).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.lo/

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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• lolo in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Hawaiian lōlō.

lolo

1. stupid, dumb

   Dass so lolo!

   That's so dumb!

lolo

1. oil

lolo

1. grandfather

• IPA^(key):

lolo (Lontara spelling ᨒᨚᨒᨚ)

1. young

lolo

1. butterfly

lolo

1. ghost

lolo

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

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

lolo (feminine loli, plural lole)

1. red

• Erromintxela: lolo
• Tavringer Romani: lollo, lolo

• 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

lolò

1. sorrow

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlolo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: lo‧lo

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

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

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

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

• “lolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

lolo

1. Romanization of ᮜᮧᮜᮧ

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

lolo

1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

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. Compare Aragonese lolo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlolo/
  • Rhymes: -olo
• (regional) IPA^(key): /ˈlulo/
  • Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: lo‧lo

lolo (feminine lola, Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜎᜓ)

1. grandfather

   Synonyms: lelong, ingkong, mamay, apo, nuno, (dialectal) amama, (dialectal) amba, (archaic) abwelo, (archaic) agwelo, (Laguna, obsolete) bapa

   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

• “lolo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “lolo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 5

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

• IPA^(key): /lóːlo/

lolo

1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “lolo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lolo (3.9)”