loh

See also: Loh and -loh

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔh/
  • Rhymes: -lɔh, -ɔh, -h

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦃ (loh).

Alternative forms

Interjection

loh

  1. (colloquial) What!?, Oh come off it!, hang on... (did I hear that right?)
    Loh, kok aneh? ― Gee, now that's weird...
    Loh, bukan itu yang dikatakannya ― Hang on, that's not what they (3s) said.

Particle

loh

  1. (colloquial) Adds emphasis at the end of a sentence or clause.
    Gua nggak mau loh.
    I definitely don’t want to.
    Suaminya insinyur di perusahaan Jepang loh.
    Her husband works as an engineer in a Japanese firm! (in this sentence, adding lho suggests that he is no ordinary man)
    Jam dua loh.
    Don’t forget, two o’clock alright?

Noun

loh (plural loh-loh, first-person possessive lohku, second-person possessive lohmu, third-person possessive lohnya)

  1. alternative spelling of lauh (“board, tablet, slab”)
    loh batu ― Tablets of Stone
    loh mahfuz ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loːx/

Noun

lōh n

  1. Alternative form of lōg

Declension

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *lauh, from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz.

Noun

lōh m

  1. forest
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle High German: lōh, lōch, lō
    • German: Loh, Lah, Lage (mostly in place names)

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką.

Noun

loh n

  1. hole
Declension
Derived terms
  • arsloh
  • biloh
  • erdloh
  • hellaloh
  • houbitloh
  • mundloh
  • nasaloh
  • pfuntloh
  • riomloh
  • rouhloh
  • spuntloh
  • steinloh
  • unbiloh
Descendants
  • Middle High German: loch
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: loch, lòch
    • Central Franconian:
      Hunsrik: Loch
      Luxembourgish: Lach
    • East Central German:
      Upper Saxon:
      Vilamovian: łöch
    • East Franconian:
    • German: Loch
    • Rhine Franconian:
      Frankfurterisch: Loch
      Pennsylvania German: Loch
    • Yiddish: לאָך‎ (lokh)

Zhuang

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 路 (MC luoH).

Pronunciation

Noun

loh (classifier diuz, Sawndip form 垎, 1957–1982 spelling loƅ)

  1. road; street; route
    Synonym: roen
  2. opportunity; way out
  3. means; method; way; trick

Derived terms

  • daihloh
  • dauhloh
  • maxloh

See also

  • dingqroen
  • gai
  • roennou
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