lalu
See also: Lalu
Iban
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lalu]
- Hyphenation: la‧lu
- Rhymes: -lu
Adverb
lalu
- then (soon afterwards)
Verb
lalu
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈlalu/ [ˈla.lu]
- Rhymes: -alu
- Syllabification: la‧lu
Adjective
lalu (comparative lebih lalu, superlative paling lalu)
- past
- having already happened; in the past
- of a period of time: having just gone by; previous
- last (most recent; latest; last so far)
- done; finished (having completed or finished an activity)
Adverb
lalu
Verb
lalu (intransitive, rare)
- to pass
- Synonym: berlalu
- to go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past
- (of time) to elapse, to be spent
Derived terms
Affixations
- berkelaluan
- berlalu (“ to pass; to go through; to die”)
- kelaluan
- keterlaluan (“outrageous; unreasonable”)
- laluan (“passageway; passage”)
- lalui
- melalukan
- selalu (“always”)
- terlalu (“too; excessive; very”)
Compounds
- lalu lintas (“traffic”)
Further reading
- “lalu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Malay
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (schwa-variety, /a/-variety, Baku, Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /ˈlalu/ [ˈla.lu]
- Rhymes: -lu, -u
- Hyphenation: la‧lu
Verb
lalu (Jawi spelling لالو, active melalu, third-person passive dilalu)
- to pass; to go past; to pass by.
- to be able to; to have the appetite to (usually used in the negative form regarding food).
Adjective
lalu (Jawi spelling لالو, comparative lebih lalu, superlative paling lalu)
- past; last; ago (of time).
- Synonym: lepas
- Dia datang pada minggu lalu.
- He came last week.
- Lupakanlah perkara yang lalu.
- Forget about past matters.
Conjunction
lalu (Jawi spelling لالو)
- then; and then; subsequently.
Derived terms
Affixations
Compounds
- lalu lintas (“traffic”)
- tumpang lalu (“excuse me (passing)”)
Descendants
- > Indonesian: lalu (inherited)
References
- Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “لالو laloe”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 114
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “لالو lalu”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 592
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “lalu”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 9
Further reading
- "lalu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Nakanai
Noun
lalu
References
- Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley et Meredith Osmond (eds), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59.
- Juliann Spencer, Sara Van Cott et Bonnie MacKenzie, A Sociolinguistic Survey of Bebeli, page 80, 2013
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈla.lu/
- Rhymes: -alu
- Syllabification: la‧lu
Noun
lalu f
- vocative singular of lala