lolo

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English

Etymology

From Tagalog lolo.

Noun

lolo (plural lolos)

  1. (Philippines) a grandfather

Adangme

Adverb

lolo

  1. not yet

Antillean Creole

Noun

lolo

  1. penis

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. grandpa; grandfather
    Synonyms: yayo, paye, uelo
  2. elderly person

References

  • 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

Bikol Central

Etymology

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

Noun

lolo (feminine lola)

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

Cebuano

Etymology

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lo‧lo

Noun

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

Etymology

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

Noun

lolo

  1. coconut cream, coconut milk

References

  • 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

Etymology

Onomatopoeia and/or childish repetition of lait

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lo.lo/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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

Further reading

Hawaiian

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Noun

lolo

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

References

  1. ^ Wilson, William H. (2012 December) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 51, number 2, pages 309-10
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “roro.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “lolo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 211

Further reading

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Hawaiian lōlō.

Adjective

lolo

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

Kapingamarangi

Noun

lolo

  1. oil

Karao

Noun

lolo

  1. grandfather

Makasar

Pronunciation

Adjective

lolo (Lontara spelling ᨒᨚᨒᨚ)

  1. young

Malagasy

Etymology 1

Noun

lolo

  1. butterfly

Etymology 2

Noun

lolo

  1. ghost

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

lolo

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

Romani

Etymology

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

Adjective

lolo (feminine loli, plural lole)

  1. red

Descendants

  • Erromintxela: lolo
  • Tavringer Romani: lollo, lolo

References

  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

  • 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

Noun

lolò

  1. sorrow

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

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

Noun

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

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

Further reading

Sundanese

Romanization

lolo

  1. Romanization of ᮜᮧᮜᮧ

Swazi

Etymology

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

Pronoun

lolo

  1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

Tagalog

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Derived terms

Further reading

  • lolo at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
  • 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

Zulu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

lolo

  1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

Inflection

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

References