See malolo on Wiktionary
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"3": "mālōlō",
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"5": "to rest"
},
"expansion": "Samoan mālōlō (“to rest”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Samoan mālōlō (“to rest”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tpi",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "malolo",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"lang_code": "tpi",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Tok Pisin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
66,
72
]
],
"english": "→New International Version translation",
"ref": "1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:2:",
"text": "Long de namba 7 God i lukim olgeta wok bilong en i pinis, na em i malolo long dispeal^([sic]) de.",
"translation": "→New International Version translation",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rest"
],
"links": [
[
"rest",
"rest"
]
]
}
],
"word": "malolo"
}
Download raw JSONL data for malolo meaning in All languages combined (8.7kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Lau",
"path": [
"malolo"
],
"section": "Fijian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "malolo",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Lau",
"path": [
"malolo"
],
"section": "Fijian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "malolo",
"trace": ""
}
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