lara

Substantivized form of larë/lanë, participle of laj.

lara pl

1. menstruation; rinse water

• laj

lara

1. Romanization of ᬮᬭ (“sick”).

Borrowed from Malay lada.

lara

1. (obsolete) Capsicum; a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
2. (obsolete) the fruit of these plants; a chili pepper or bell pepper

Displaced by sili.

lara

1. (Indonesian) Romanization of ꦭꦫ.

Borrowed from Malay lada.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾəʔ/ [ˈläː.ɾəʔ]
• Hyphenation: la‧ra

lárâ

1. Capsicum; a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
2. the fruit of these plants; a chili pepper or bell pepper

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaːra]

lara

1. road
2. way
3. path

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “lara”, in Lamboya word list‎^[1], Leiden: LexiRumah

lara

1. to weave (a mat)

lara

1. poison

lāra

1. nominative/accusative plural of lār

Probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lalu (“to worsen (as an illness)”).

lara

1. ill, sick

   Synonyms: ārta, grah, lara, rogī, wyādhi

2. sad
3. suffering
4. affliction, grief

• Javanese: ꦭꦫ (lara)
• → Balinese: ᬮᬭ (lara)

• "lara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Borrowed from Malay lada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lajaq. Compare Kapampangan lara and Cebuano lara. Doublet of lala.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɾaʔ/ [ˈlaː.ɾɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɾaʔ
• Syllabification: la‧ra

larà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜇ) (now dialectal, Southern Tagalog)

1. bell pepper; chili pepper; pepper

   Synonym: siling lara

• “lara”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 155: “Chile) Lara (pp) que pica y quema”

• aral