lele

See also: lelé, Le-Le, lėlė, and le le

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lele.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.le/, [ˈlɛ.lɛ]

Verb

lele

1. to jump, leap, hop, skip
2. to fly
3. to swing, bounce
4. to burst forth, to rush out
5. (of vehicles, horses, boats, etc.) to get off, dismount, disembark
6. to attack
7. (of pieces in a board game) to move

Indonesian

Noun

lele (first-person possessive leleku, second-person possessive lelemu, third-person possessive lelenya)

1. catfish (a kind of fish)

Further reading

• “lele” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Lindu

Noun

lele

1. catfish

Niuean

Etymology

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Verb

lele

1. to fly

Derived terms

• vakalele

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of wailing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lêle/
• Hyphenation: le‧le

Interjection

lȅle (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ле)

1. Used to express pain or woe, usually in the collocation kuku lele; ouch, alas

References

• “lele”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with Tidore lele (“betel”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈle.le]

Noun

lele

1. betel

   Synonym: bido

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈle.le]
• Hyphenation: le‧le

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *lele. Cognates include Hawaiian lele and Samoan lele.

Verb

lele (plural felelei)

1. (intransitive) to fly

Etymology 2

Particle

lele

1. Intensifies the preceding word; indeed, of course, very

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 183

Zulu

Etymology

Stative of -lala.

Verb

-lele^?

1. to be asleep

Inflection

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