alo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "alo"

Translingual

Symbol

alo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Larike-Wakasihu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Larike-Wakasihu terms

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlo/ [ʔʌˈlɔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

Noun

aló f 

1. popcorn

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Apatani

Noun

alo

1. day

References

• P. T. Abraham, Apatani-English-Hindi Dictionary (1987)

Bikol Central

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaloʔ/ [ˈʔa.l̪oʔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

Noun

alò (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. (archaic) rest (relief from any activity)

Derived terms

• hingalo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalo/ [ˈʔa.l̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

Interjection

álo (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. nonstandard form of halo (“quiet!; be quiet!”)

Cèmuhî

Numeral

alo

1. two

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈálo] (vowel length not well attested)

Noun

alo anim (plural alomeh)

1. (it is) a scarlet macaw; Ara macao.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 188r:

     Papagayo grãde. alo.

     A large parrot. alo.

   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, pt 2, f. 4r. col. 1:

     Alo. papagayo grande.

     Alo. a large parrot.

References

• Alonso de Molina (2008), Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 4

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin āla (“wing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

Noun

alo (accusative singular alon, plural aloj, accusative plural alojn)

1. side of the nostril, ala of the nose
2. wing (of a building)
   • Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Part 1, Chapter 2,

     [...] Poncio Pilato, la prokuratoro de Judujo, kavaleriane trenante la plandumojn, eliris en la portikon inter la du aloj de la palaco de Herodo la Granda.

     [...] walking with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, the Procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, came out into the covered colonnade between the two wings of the palace of Herod the Great. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

3. wing, flank, branch (of a party, army, etc.)
   • Vladimír Váňa (translator), Aventuroj de la Brava Soldato Ŝvejk dum la Mondmilito (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek, Part 2, Chapter 4,

     [...] serboj intertempe atingis nian arieron sur ambaǔ aloj kaj ĉirkaǔhakis nian centron en formo de triangulo [...]

     [...] in the meantime the Serbs had got behind us on both flanks and cut up our centre into a triangle. (Cecil Parrott translation, Heinemann, 1973)

4. (chess) flank, wing (left or right side of the chessboard)

Derived terms

• aleto
• ĉirkaŭala
• frogalo

Franco-Provençal

Verb

alo (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. Alternative form of alar (“to go”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche

Galo

Noun

alo

1. salt

Haitian Creole

Alternative forms

• alò

Etymology

From French allô (“hello”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

Interjection

alo

1. (telephony) hello

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo/, [ˈɐ.lo]

Noun

alo

1. front (facing side)
2. face

   Ua kipaku aku ʻoe iaʻu i kēia lā mai ke alo aku o ka honua nei.

   You have driven me out this day from the face of the earth.

3. presence

   Eia ʻoe i ke alo o ka ʻaha.

   Here you are in the presence of the assembly.

4. (geometry) face

Derived terms

• hoʻalo

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “alo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian ala, Spanish ala and French aile, all ultimately from Latin āla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalo/

Noun

alo (plural ali)

1. (anatomy) wing
   • 1913, Progreso, volume 5, page 263:

     Multa insekti esas sen-ala e la femini di kelka *lepidopteri (papilioni) havas ali, qui aspektas nur kom tre kurta stumpi, e korpo, qua similesas sako plena de ovi.

     Many insects are wingless and the females of some lepidoptera (butterflies) have wings that only look like very short stumps and a body that resembles a pouch full of eggs.

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, *laqəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

Noun

alo

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

Italian

Verb

alo

1. first-person singular present indicative of alare

Anagrams

• Lao, loa, olà