luah

luah

1. Romanization of ᬮᬸᬯᬄ

• IPA^(key): /lu.ʔah/
• Rhymes: -ʔah
• Hyphenation: lu‧ah

Inherited from Malay luah, from Proto-Malayic *luah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luaq (compare Fijian lua, Malagasy lua, Maori ruaki).

luah (first-person possessive luahku, second-person possessive luahmu, third-person possessive luahnya)

1. nausea: a feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese lwah (“river”) (compare to Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦃ (loh) and Balinese ᬮᬸᬯᬄ (luah)).

luah (first-person possessive luahku, second-person possessive luahmu, third-person possessive luahnya)

1. (agriculture) the volume of liquid flowing through a surface per unit time

• “luah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Cognate with luak, from Proto-Malayic *luah (compare Indonesian luah), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luaq (compare Fijian lua, Malagasy lua, Maori ruaki).

• IPA^(key): /luah/
• Rhymes: -uah, -ah

luah

1. to eject food from the mouth
2. to feel sick
3. to express

• > Indonesian: luah (inherited)

• “luah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.