Laos

Borrowed from French Laos, plural of Lao, from Lao ລາວ (lāo, “Lao”). More at Lao.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaʊ(s)/, /ˈlɑːoʊ(s)/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: louse

Laos

2. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Capital: Vientiane.

   Synonym: Laoland

   • 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to state-affiliated media in the Southeast Asian country.

• Lao
• Laotian

• Vientiane
• Appendix:Countries of the world

• Laos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Laos on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Laos on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Laos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• IPA^(key): /laʊz/

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Laos

1. plural of Lao

• ASLO, LOAs, Loas, Salo, also, loas, salo, soal, sola

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia; capital: Vientiane)

• Laosiaan
• Laosiaans

• Laos on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^af

Laos m (definite Laosi)

1. Laos (a country in East Asia)

• IPA^(key): /laos̺/ [la.os̺]
• Rhymes: -aos̺, -os̺
• Hyphenation: La‧os

Laos inan

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈla.us]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈla.os]

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Laos m

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laosià

• Laos on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaos]

Laos m inan (relational adjective laoský, demonym Laosan)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• “Laos”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Laos”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Laos”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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Laos n

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Laotiaan
• Laotiaans

From French Laos, from Lao ລາວ (lāo, “Lao”).

Laos n

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laotiskur

From French Laos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑos/, [ˈlɑ̝o̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑos
• Syllabification^(key): La‧os
• Hyphenation^(key): La‧os

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laosilainen

• lao

• Salo, olas, salo, sola

Originally the plural of Lao.

• IPA^(key): /la.ɔs/

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Laos m

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laotien
• Laotien

• → English: Laos

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Laos n (proper noun, genitive Laos' or (with an article) Laos)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Laote
• laotisch

Borrowed from English, from French Laos, from Lao ລາວ (lāo, “Lao”).

Laos m (genitive Laos)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Laosach (“Laotian”, adjective)
• Laosach m (“Laotian”, noun)

• “Laos”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.os/^[1]
• Rhymes: -aos
• Hyphenation: Là‧os

Laos m

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laotiano

• Salò, salo, salò, sola

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• lao
• laot
• laotisk

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• lao
• laot
• laotisk

Borrowed from French Laos, plural of Lao, from Lao ລາວ (lāo, “Lao”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ɔs/

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• Rhymes: -aɔs
• Syllabification: La‧os

Laos m inan

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Laos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French Laos.

• Hyphenation: Laos

Laos m

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laosiano

• lao

• IPA^(key): /lâos/
• Hyphenation: La‧os

Lȁos m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ла̏ос)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaɔs]

Laos m inan (genitive singular Laosu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• “Laos”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /láːɔs/

Lȃos m inan

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Lâos
genitive	Lâosa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Lâos
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Lâosa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Lâosu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Lâos
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Lâosu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Lâosom

• Laošàn / Laošánka
• láoski
• láoščina

• “Laos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Laos”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaos/ [ˈla.os]

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• Rhymes: -aos
• Syllabification: La‧os

Laos ?

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

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Laos n (genitive Laos)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• laotier
• laotisk
• laotiska

• Laos in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• Olas, sola

Borrowed from Spanish Laos.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlaʔos/ [ˈlaː.ʔos]
• Rhymes: -aʔos
• Syllabification: La‧os

Laos (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜂᜐ᜔)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• salo, also, laso

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Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

Laos

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɔs/

Laos f (not mutable)

1. Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Laosaidd (“Laotian”, adjective)
• Laoseg (“Lao language”)
• Laosiad (“Laotian”, noun)

• Griffiths, Bruce, Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995) Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN