လောလောဆယ်

Burmese

Etymology

According to MED, a compound of လောလော (lau:lau:, most recently, at once) +‎ ဆယ် (hcai, ten). The interpretation appears to be something like "most recently (while a duration of ten passes)".

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: လောလောဇယ်
  • IPA(key): /lɔ́lɔ́zɛ̀/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lau:lau:hcai • ALA-LC: lolochayʻ • BGN/PCGN: law:law:zè • Okell: lòlòze

Adverb

လောလောဆယ် • (lau:lau:hcai)

  1. for the time being, in the interim, in the meantime, for the present

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