# lolo
## English
### Etymology

From Tagalog lolo.

### Noun

lolo (plural lolos)
* (Philippines) a grandfather

#### Related terms

* lola

## Adangme
### Adverb

lolo
* not yet

## Antillean Creole
### Noun

lolo
* penis

## Aragonese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlolo/
* Rhymes: -olo
* Syllabification: lo‧lo

### Noun

lolo m (plural lolos, feminine lola, feminine plural lolas)
* grandpa; grandfather
    Synonyms: yayo, paye, uelo
* elderly person

### References

* “lolo”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)
* “lolo - lola”, in Diccionario ortografico de l’aragonés (seguntes la PO de l’EFA)‎, Zaragoza: EDACAR, 2023, →ISSN, page 1516

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

From a shortened form of Spanish abuelo by folk etymology.

### Noun

lolo (feminine lola)
* 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)
* a grandfather
    Synonym: uyong
* a granduncle
* a cousin of one's grandparents
* An affectionate or honorific term for an elderly man

## Fijian
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *lolo, cognate with Samoan lololo and Rarotongan roro.

### Noun

lolo
* 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: /lo.lo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lolo m (plural lolos)
* (childish) milk
* (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 fautBaby 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-Eastern Polynesian *lolo (“soft or spongy matter, brains”) from Proto-Polynesian *lolo “coconut milk or oil” (compare with Samoan lolo, Tongan lolo) from Proto-Oceanic *lolo (“ibid.”, compare with Fijian lolo).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlo.lo/

### Noun

lolo
* brain
* bone marrow
* coconut heart or coconut apple, i.e. spongy cotyledon from a sprouting coconut
    Synonym: iho

#### Related terms

* lololo

### References

* ↑ Wilson, William H. (2012 December) “Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎, volume 51, number 2, pages 309-10
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “roro.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “lolo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 211

### Further reading

* lolo in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

## Hawaiian Creole
### Etymology

From Hawaiian lōlō.

### Adjective

lolo
* stupid, dumb
    Dass so lolo!That's so dumb!

## Kapingamarangi
### Noun

lolo
* oil

## Karao
### Noun

lolo
* grandfather

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔlɔ]

### Adjective

lolo (Lontara spelling ᨒᨚᨒᨚ)
* young

## Malagasy
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

lolo
* butterfly

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lolo
* ghost

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 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
* 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)
* red

#### Descendants

* Erromintxela: lolo
* Tavringer Romani: lollo, lolo

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lṓhita”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 650
* ↑ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “loló”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 169b

### 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
* sorrow

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Lolita, the protagonist of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, or short form of pololo from Mapudungun püḻü (“fly”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlolo/ [ˈlo.lo]
* Rhymes: -olo
* Syllabification: lo‧lo

### Adjective

lolo (feminine lola, masculine plural lolos, feminine plural lolas)
* (colloquial, Chile) young, teen, juvenile (person)

### Noun

lolo m (plural lolos, feminine lola, feminine plural lolas)
* (colloquial, Chile) kid, boy, girl

#### Related terms

* pololear
* pololeo
* pololo, polola

### Further reading

* “lolo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sundanese
### Adjective

lolo (Sundanese script ᮜᮧᮜᮧ)
* unclean

## Swazi
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

lolo
* 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. Compare Aragonese lolo.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

lolo (feminine lola, Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜎᜓ)
* grandfather
    Synonyms: lelong, ingkong, mamay, apo, nuno, (dialectal) amama, (dialectal) amba, (archaic) abwelo, (archaic) agwelo, (Laguna, obsolete) bapa
    Masaya ang lola kahapon dahil dumating ang lolo.Grandmother was happy yesterday because Grandfather came.
* (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”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “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: /lóːlo/

### Pronoun

lolo
* that; class 11 distal demonstrative.

#### Inflection
### References

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