ara ara

Borrowed from Japanese あらあら (Japanese for "oh dear"), popularized around March 2019.

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ara ara

1. (Internet slang) Used to express admiration or a typical reaction, often used in women speech.

   ara ara, are you alone, little boy?

ara ara

1. Rōmaji transcription of あらあら

Reduplication of ara (“interval, space or time between two things”). Compare Kazakh ара-арасында (ara-arasynda).

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.a.ɾa/
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧a‧ra

ara ara

1. from time to time, sometimes

   Synonyms: zaman zaman, vakit vakit, ara sıra, arada, arada bir, bir ara, bazen

   Televizyon yayını ara ara kesildi. ― The television broadcast was interrupted from time to time.

• “ara ara”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ara ara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 271