walau

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wà.làu/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [wə̀.làu]

Ideophone

wàlàu

  1. showing open palms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay walau, from Arabic وَلَوْ (walaw, “albeit”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈwalau̯/ [ˈwa.lau̯]
  • Rhymes: -alau̯
  • Syllabification: wa‧lau

Conjunction

walau

  1. even if (regardless of whether)
    Synonym: bahkan jika
  2. though (despite the fact that)
    Synonym: meski

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic ولو

Conjunction

walau

  1. even if
  2. though

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

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