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Lao
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Appendix:Variations of "lao"
English
Etymology
en :bor lo:ລາວ + 1
Pronunciation
en /laʊ/ /ˈlɑːoʊ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lao.wav Southern England
en aʊ 1
Noun
~ * s
+ people
Lao language
en countable A Tai peoples Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.
en uncountable The official language of Laos that is closely related to Thai.
Translations
person
Afrikaans: af Laosiaan
Albanian: sq laotián m, sq laotiáne f, sq laosián m, sq laosiáne f,
Asturian: ast laosianu m, ast laosiana f
Basque: eu laostar
Bulgarian: bg лао́сец m
Burmese: my
Catalan: ca laosià m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 老撾人 lǎowōrén
Czech: cs Laosan m
Dutch: nl Laotiaans n
Farefare: gur laoga
Finnish: fi laosilainen, fi lao
French: fr Laotien m, fr Laotienne f
Galician: gl laosiano m
German: de Laote m, de Laotin f
Gujarati: gu લાઓશિયન
Hindi: hi लाओशियन
Hungarian: hu lao
Irish: ga Laosach m
Italian: it laotiano m, it laotiana f
Japanese: ja ラオス人 ラオスじん, raosujin
Khmer: km លាវ
Korean: ko 라오스인, ko 라오스 사람
Lao: lo ຄົນລາວ
Lü: khb
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb laot m
Nynorsk: nn laot m
Persian: fa لائوسی lâ'osi
Polish: pl Laotańczyk m, pl Laotanka f
Portuguese: pt laosiano m, pt laociano m
Romanian: ro laoțian m, ro laoțiană
Russian: ru лао́сец m, ru лао́ска f
Spanish: es laosiano m, es laosiana f, es lao m
Swedish: sv laotier m, sv laotiska f
Tagalog: tl Laosyano
Thai: th คนลาว kon-laao
Ukrainian: uk лао́сець m, uk лао́ска f
Vietnamese: vi người Lào
Zhuang: za
language
Afrikaans: af Laosiaans, af Lao
Albanian: sq laotián, sq laotianísht, sq laotísht, sq laosián, sq laosianísht, sq laosísht
Armenian: hy լաոսերեն
Belarusian: be лао́ская f мо́ва
Bulgarian: bg лао́ски m ези́к
Burmese: written language my လာအိုစာ, spoken language my လာအိုစကား
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 老撾語 lǎowōyǔ, cmn 寮文 liáowén
Czech: cs laoština f
Danish: da laotisk c
Dobrujan Tatar: crh lawğa
Dutch: nl Laotiaans n
Farefare: gur laore
Finnish: fi lao
French: fr laotien m
Georgian: ka
German: de Laotisch, de Lao n
Greek: el Λαοτινή f
Gujarati: gu લાઓશિયન
Hindi: hi लाओशियन
Hmong:
Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao: cqd
Green Hmong: hnj
White Hmong: mww
Hungarian: hu lao
Indonesian: id bahasa Laos
Irish: ga Laoisis f
Italian: it laotiano
Japanese: ja ラオ語 raogo, ja ラオス語 raosugo, ja ラーオ語 ラーオご, rāogo
Khmer: km ភាសាលាវ
Korean: ko 라오어
Lao: lo ພາສາລາວ
Lü: khb
Malay: ms Bahasa Lao
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb laotisk m
Nynorsk: nn laotisk m
Polish: pl laotański m
Portuguese: pt laosiano m, pt laociano m
Romanian: ro laoțiană f, ro lao
Russian: ru лао́сский m язы́к
Slovak: sk laoština f
Spanish: es lao m, es laosiano m
Swedish: sv laotiska f
Tagalog: tl Laosyano
Thai: th ภาษาลาว paa-sǎa laao
Ukrainian: uk лао́ська f мо́ва
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Lào
Welsh: cy Laoeg f
Zhuang: za vahlao
Adjective
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Of, from, or pertaining to Laos, the Lao people or their Kra-Dai Lao language.
en Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/asia/laos-detains-hostel-staff-methanol-poisoning-intl-hnk/index.html 2024-11-27 A statement from the official Lao News Agency (KPL) Friday reported that “the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages” was the suspected cause of the deaths. https://web.archive.org/web/20260517164251/https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/asia/laos-detains-hostel-staff-methanol-poisoning-intl-hnk/index.html 17 May 2026
Synonyms
en Laotian
Derived terms
en Lao PDR Laoland Laoness Lao coriander
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to Laos, the people or their language
Afrikaans: af Laosiaans
Asturian: ast laosianu
Belarusian: be лао́скі
Bulgarian: bg лао́ски m-p
Burmese: my လာအို
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 老撾 老撾的 Lǎowō de
Czech: cs laoský
Farefare: gur lao ethnic
Finnish: fi laosilainen people, culture, country; fi laonkielinen language
French: fr lao the people, fr laotien
Galician: gl laosiano
German: de laotisch
Hungarian: hu lao
Japanese: ja ラオス Raosu no ラオスの
Khmer: km លាវ, km ឡាវ
Korean: ko 라오스 ^라오스-의
Lao: lo ລາວ
Lü: khb ᦟᦱᧁ
Polish: pl laotański m
Portuguese: pt laosiano, pt laociano
Romanian: ro laoțian
Russian: ru лао́сский
Shan: shn လၢဝ်း
Spanish: es laosiano, es de Laos
Swedish: sv laotisk
Tagalog: tl Laosyano
Thai: th ลาว
Northern Thai: nod ᩃᩣ᩠ᩅ
Ukrainian: uk лао́ський
Vietnamese: vi Lào
Zhuang: za
See also
lo
Further reading
1 lo lao
lao
Proper noun
en barangay city/Ormoc p/Leyte c/Philippines.
VIII Leyte Ormoc
Anagrams
en alo -ola AOL LOA Loa OAL Ola loa ola
en Ethnonyms Languages Laos Nationalities Writing systems
Afrikaans
Proper noun
af Laosiaans the en Lao language
af Laos Languages
Italian
it:
Etymology
From it la Laus, from it grc Λαός, likely ultimately from it ine-pro *lewh₃- to wash, common in hydronyms. The first vowel may have derived from an O-grade or from the zero-grade, depending on the language it was borrowed through.DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992
Proper noun
it river r/Calabria
References
Anagrams
it alo alo alo- alò loa olà
Tagalog
Etymology
From tl nan-hbl - 劉 Lâu or 留 Lâu & tl yue - 劉 Lau4, via tl en Lao. tl Lew Liu.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
law
tl Chinese Filipino Hokkien
tl Chinese Filipino Cantonese
See also
tl Lew
Anagrams
tl alo loa ola alo
Turkish
Proper noun
Lao, a person from Laos
Declension
o 1 1
tr Nationalities