walau

Hausa

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wà.làu/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [wə̀.làu]

Ideophone

wàlàu

  1. showing open palms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay walau, from Classical Malay walau, from Arabic وَلَوْ (walaw, “albeit”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwalau̯/
  • Rhymes: -lau̯, -au̯, -u
  • Hyphenation: wa‧lau

Conjunction

walau

  1. although, even though
  2. even if

Synonyms

References
  1. Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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