helo

Clipping of helicopter + -o.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhi.loʊ/

helo (plural helos)

1. (military, slang) A helicopter.

helo (third-person singular simple present helos, present participle heloing, simple past and past participle heloed)

1. (military, slang, rare) To travel via helicopter.
   • 1998, Stephen Hunter, Time to Hunt, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 380:

     As soon as it's flyable, I've got a squad of air policemen heloing in from Mountain Home to set up a defensive perimeter, and park rangers and Idaho State Policemen ready to go into the mountains after this guy.

• “helo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• Hoel, OHLE, hole, ohel, oleh

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: he‧lo

helo (uncountable, accusative helon)

1. brightness

   Antonym: malhelo

• hela

heleä +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelo/, [ˈhe̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification^(key): he‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): he‧lo

helo (rare)

1. shine

• loiste

• “helo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Derived from Proto-Polynesian *felo (“yellow, tawny”) (compare with Maori whero, Tongan felo and felofelo)^[1][2][3] Doublet of weo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.lo/, [ˈhɛ.lo]

helo

1. red (color/colour)

   Synonyms: ʻula, ʻulaʻula

2. rosiness

• ʻōhelo

• hehelo
• helohelo

From English hello.

• IPA^(key): [he.lo], [hɛ.lo]
• Rhymes: -lo, -o
• Hyphenation: he‧lo

helo (Jawi spelling هيلو)

1. Used to greet people; hello.

   Helo, awak di mana sekarang?

   Hello, where are you now?

• halo / هلو
• assalamualaikum / السلامعليکم (usually used by Muslims only)
• hai / هاي

• “helo” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelo/ [ˈe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: he‧lo

helo

1. inflection of haber:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with lo
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with lo

• IPA^(key): [ˈhe.lo]
• Hyphenation: he‧lo

Borrowed from English zero.

helo

1. zero
2. piece of cake (something very simple)

Borrowed from English cello.

helo

1. cello

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 309

• hylo

Borrowed from English hello.

helo

1. hello (greeting)