lolo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lolo"

English

Etymology

From Tagalog lolo.

Noun

lolo (plural lolos)

1. (Philippines) a grandfather

Related terms

• lola

Adangme

Adverb

lolo

1. not yet

Antillean Creole

Noun

lolo

1. penis

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:

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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

• “lolo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *roro related to Proto-Polynesian *lolo.

Noun

lolo

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

   Synonym: iho

Related terms

• lololo

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔlɔ]

Adjective

lolo (Lontara spelling ᨒᨚᨒᨚ)

1. young

Malagasy

Etymology 1

Noun

lolo

1. butterfly

Etymology 2

Noun

lolo

1. ghost

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀮𑁄𑀮𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• लोलो (Devanagari script)
• লোলো (Bengali script)
• ලොලො (Sinhalese script)
• လောလော or လေႃလေႃ (Burmese script)
• โลโล (Thai script)
• ᩃᩮᩣᩃᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂລໂລ (Lao script)
• លោលោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄣𑄮𑄣𑄮 (Chakma script)

Adjective

lolo

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

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit लोहित (lohita), 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

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/ [ˈlo.lo]
• 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

Related terms

• pololear
• pololeo
• pololo, polola

 

Further reading

• “lolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lolo (feminine lola, Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜎᜓ)

1. grandfather

   Synonyms: lelong, ingkong, mamay, apo, nuno, (dialectal) amama, (archaic) abwelo, (archaic) agwelo

   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

• lolo sa sakong
• lolo sa talampakan
• lolo sa tuhod
• maglolo

 

Related terms

• Lolo

 

Further reading

• “lolo” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], 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

• IPA^(key): /lóːlo/

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

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