lal

Clipping of English Lalia.

lal

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lalia.

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈlal/

lal

1. to pick up, gather

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Borrowed from Classical Persian لال (lāl).

• Audio:

  (file)

lal (comparative daha lal, superlative ən lal)

1. mute

• lallıq

• “lal” in Obastan.com.

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /lal/

lal (verbal noun talalit or alali)

1. to be born; to begin; to appear

   Lulen-d deg useggʷas n 1999. ― They were born in 1999.

• This verb may or may not be affixed with the ventive clitic d.

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *lal.

lal

1. chief

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “lal”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

lal (construct lalin)

1. word, language

lal

1. (intransitive) to talk, speak

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• Rhymes: -al

lal

1. mute (not having the power of speech)

• lalî
• lalîtî
• laltî

• IPA^(key): /ˈlal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: lal

lal f

1. genitive plural of lala

• 𐴓𐴝𐴓𐴢 (lal) — Hanifi Rohingya script

From Hindi लाल (lāl, “red”).

lal (Hanifi spelling 𐴓𐴝𐴓𐴢)

1. red

lal

1. romanization of 𒇲 (lal)

From Proto-Berber *əlalăʔ (“to give birth, to be born”)^[1].

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight lal (“to give birth”), Kabyle lal (“to be born”), Nefusa lūl (“to be born”), Northern Saharan Berber llal (“to be born”), and Zenaga iyiyi (“to be born”).

lal (intensive aorist ttlal or ttlala, preterite lul, verbal noun talalit, Tifinagh spelling ⵍⴰⵍ, Arabic spelling لال)

1. to be born

   مان اسڭُّاس ا تلولت؟ ― man asggʷas a tlult? ― what year were you born?

   لولغ غ مرّاكش. ― lulġ ġ mṛṛakš. ― i was born in Marrakesh.

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

• lall, lalla

lal f (plural istt lal, Tifinagh spelling ⵍⴰⵍ, Arabic spelling لال)

1. owner(f), mistress

   ماني تكّا لال ن تڭمّي؟ ― mani tkka lal n tgmmi? ― where is the mistress of the house?

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1272

Cognate with Persian لال (lāl).

lal

1. mute, dumb

• Audio:

  (file)

lal

1. bed

lal

1. dumb

• lalek