"laa" meaning in Afar

See laa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈlaː/, [ˈlaː]
Etymology: From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Oromo loon, Sidamo lalo and Saho laa. Compare also Amharic ላም (lam). Etymology templates: {{inh|aa|cus-pro|-}} Proto-Cushitic, {{cog|om|loon}} Oromo loon, {{cog|sid|lalo}} Sidamo lalo, {{cog|ssy|laa}} Saho laa, {{cog|am|ላም}} Amharic ላም (lam) Head templates: {{head|aa|noun|||||singulative|sagá|or||or||or||plural|lóo|or||or||or||or||f10accel-form=p|f10g=f|f11accel-form=p|f11g=f|f1accel-form=f|f2accel-form=m|f3accel-form=s|f3g=f|f4accel-form=s|f4g=f|f5accel-form=s|f5g=f|f6accel-form=s|f6g=f|f7accel-form=p|f7g=f|f8accel-form=p|f8g=f|f9accel-form=p|f9g=f|g=m|g2=|head=láa}} láa m (singulative sagá f, plural lóo f), {{aa-noun|láa|g=m|gpl=f|gsg=f|pl=lóo|sg=sagá}} láa m (singulative sagá f, plural lóo f) Inflection templates: {{aa-decl|láa|láa|laahí|laahí}} Forms: láa [canonical, masculine], sagá [feminine, singulative], lóo [feminine, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], láa [absolutive], láa [predicative], laahí [subjective], laahí [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], láal [l-case, with-postposition], láak [k-case, with-postposition], láat [t-case, with-postposition], láah [h-case, with-postposition]
  1. (collective) cattle Tags: collective Derived forms: laahintí Related terms: sagáytu (english: bull)
    Sense id: en-laa-aa-noun-rdC4hzlX Categories (other): Afar entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 11 entries, Pages with entries, Bovines

Inflected forms

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        "6": "",
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      "expansion": "láa m (singulative sagá f, plural lóo f)",
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  "hyphenation": [
    "laa"
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    {
      "parts": [
        "laa"
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    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "Afar",
  "lang_code": "aa",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
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        {
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "laahintí"
        }
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        "cattle"
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      "links": [
        [
          "cattle",
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        {
          "english": "bull",
          "translation": "bull",
          "word": "sagáytu"
        }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈlaː]"
    }
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}
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        "1": "sid",
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          "láa",
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          "láa",
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    {
      "form": "laahí",
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        [
          "laahí",
          "laahi#Afar"
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      ],
      "source": "declension",
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        "subjective"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "laahí",
      "links": [
        [
          "laahí",
          "laahi#Afar"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
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      "form": "aa-decl",
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        "inflection-template"
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      "form": "láal",
      "links": [
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          "láal",
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      ],
      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "láak",
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          "láak",
          "laak#Afar"
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      "form": "láat",
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          "láat",
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      ],
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      "form": "láah",
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      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlaː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈlaː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "laa"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Afar dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.