lala

From Sanskrit लाला (lālā, “saliva”)

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈl̪aˌl̪a/
• (Cebu) IPA^(key): /ˈl̪a/
• (Surigaonon) IPA^(key): /ˈjaˌja/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: la‧la

lala

1. venom

lala

1. venomous
2. (of bladed weapons or tools) sharp

• lala og dila

• IPA^(key): /lælæ/

lala

1. to wait

lála

1. solfeggio

lála (diminutive lalá-lála)

1. (music) to sing a lullaby

lálà or lâlâ

1. to strip, separate (meat from the bone)

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.la/

lala (plural lala-lala)

1. shellfish, as food[1]

lala

1. guava

Only in the southern dialect.

From Proto-Nguni *-lála, from Proto-Bantu *-dáada.

-lála

1. to sleep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Slavic *ľaľa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.la/

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lala f

1. (childish) doll (toy in the form of a human)
2. (by extension, slang) An attractive woman.
3. (by extension) bimbo, Barbie (a beautiful and well-dressed but shallow young woman)

• (nouns) lalka, lalkarz, lalunia, lalusia, laluś

• lala in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ottoman Turkish لاله‎ (lâle), from Persian لاله‎ (lâle).

• IPA^(key): /lǎːla/
• Hyphenation: la‧la

lála f (Cyrillic spelling ла́ла)

1. (Bosnia, regional Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia) tulip
   • 1863, Laza Kostić "Slavuj i lala" in Danica, Đorđe Popović (the publisher):

     Kako te lala žestoko ljubi,

     kad bi otvorila list,

     svu ujedanput razmilinu bi,

     sav bi ti dala miris. [...]

     How tulip fiercely loves you,

     if it opened its leaf,

     all the fondness at once it would,

     all the smell it would give you. [...]

   • Musa Ćazim Ćatić Gazeli:

     Tu se pilo rujno vino k'o tekuće lala-cv'jeće. [...]

     Here the red wine it was drunk as if it were liquid tulip-flowers. [...]

   • Gavro Babić, Zašto me voliš:

     [...] ni lala nisam sa kojom možeš,

     blistave kose jutrom da kitiš [...]

     [...] nor I am tulip with which you can

     shiny hair in the morning adorn [...]

2. (regional) a person from Vojvodina

• tȕlipān

From Proto-Bantu *-dáada.

-lala (infinitive kulala)

1. to sleep
2. to lie down
3. (kulala na) to sleep with (to have sexual intercourse with)

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -lalia

• Nominal derivations:
  • malale (“sleeping sickness”)
  • mlalaji (“sleeper”)

• usingizi

From Proto-Nguni *-lála, from Proto-Bantu *-dáada.

-lála

1. to sleep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

lala

1. weave

• habi
• wanla

lalá

1. woven

lalâ

1. state of becoming or growing serious or aggravated
2. aggravation; seriousness; graveness

lalâ

1. aggravated; grown serious or grave

• mabigat
• malala
• malubha
• seryo

• IPA^(key): [ɫɑ.ˈɫɑ]
• Hyphenation: la‧la

lala (definite accusative lalayı, plural lalalar)

1. (obsolete) tutor
2. (historical) tutor of a Shahzadah

• şehzade lalası (2)

• lala paşa eğlendirmek
• lalalık

From Proto-Nguni *-lála, from Proto-Bantu *-dáada.

• IPA^(key): [láːla]

-lála

1. (intransitive) to rest (by lying down)
2. (intransitive) to sleep

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Nguni *-lála, from Proto-Bantu *-dáada.

IPA^(key): /láːla/

-lála

1. (intransitive) to rest (by lying down)
2. (intransitive) to sleep
3. (intransitive) to stay (for the night)
4. (intransitive) to have sex

• -lalela (applicative)
• -lalisa (causative)
• -lalisisa (intensive)
• -laleka (neuter-passive)
• -lalwa (passive)
• -lele (stative)

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