lele

See also: lelé, Le-Le, lėlė, le le, and Lele

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lele, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laʀiv (“run, flee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.le/, [ˈlɛ.lɛ]

Verb

lele(intransitive)

1. to jump, leap, hop, skip
2. to fly
3. to swing, bounce
4. to burst forth, to rush out
5. (of vehicles, horses, boats, etc.) to get off, dismount, disembark
6. to attack
7. (of pieces in a board game) to move
8. to count by

   lele hapalima ― count by fives

9. (computing) to log off

Verb

lele(stative)

1. windblown
2. contagious
3. detached

Noun

lele

1. (music) interval

   lele lima hapa ― minor fifth

Derived terms

• helu lele (“skip count”, verb)
• hoʻolele (causative/simulative)
• lele kawa (“cliff jump”, verb)
• lele ʻōʻō (“plunge feet first”, verb)
• lelele (“hop about”, verb)
• lelelele (reduplicated form)
• malele (“scattered”)

Further reading

• lele in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlele/ [ˈle.le]
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: le‧le

Noun

lele (plural lele-lele)

1. catfish (a kind of fish)

   Synonym: keli (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “lele”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Lindu

Noun

lele

1. catfish

Niuean

Etymology

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Verb

lele

1. to fly

Derived terms

• vakalele

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of wailing. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lêle/
• Hyphenation: le‧le

Interjection

lȅle (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ле)

1. Used to express pain or woe, usually in the collocation kuku lele; ouch, alas

Further reading

• “lele”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with Tidore lele (“betel”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈle.le]

Noun

lele

1. betel

   Synonym: bido

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈle.le]
• Hyphenation: le‧le

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *lele. Cognates include Hawaiian lele and Samoan lele.

Verb

lele (plural felelei)

1. (intransitive) to fly

Etymology 2

Particle

lele

1. Intensifies the preceding word; indeed, of course, very

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 183

Zulu

Etymology

Stative of -lala.

Verb

-lele^?

1. to be asleep

Inflection

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