လုလင်

Burmese

Etymology

Despite MED treating the term as an atomic non-decomposable unit, from လု (lu.) +‎ လင် (lang, “husband”), with the first syllable probably serving as a variant of လူ (lu, “person”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lṵlɪ̀ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lu.lang • ALA-LC: lulaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: lu.lin • Okell: lúliñ

Noun

လုလင် • (lu.lang)

  1. young man, youth, lad

Derived terms

  • ကျွန်းလုလင် (kywan:lu.lang)
  • စာပို့လုလင် (capui.lu.lang)
  • လုလင်ကျော် (lu.langkyau)
  • လုလင်တိုင် (lu.langtuing)
  • လုလင်ပြန် (lu.langpran)

Further reading

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