allô

• allo (post-1990 spelling)

From English hello.

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

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allô

1. (telephony) hello (when answering at the beginning of a call)
2. (telephony) used to confirm that the person being addressed is listening, or to confirm if anyone is listening

   Allô? Tu m'entends? ― Hello? You hear me?

3. (Quebec, Louisiana) hello (as a greeting other than on the telephone)
4. (informal) hello! (implying someone is not paying attention to the obvious)

• → Romanian: alo
• → Russian: алло́ (alló)
• → Spanish: aló
• → Turkish: alo

• “allô”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Lola