laba-laba

See also: labalaba

Indonesian

laba-laba

Alternative forms

• labah-labah
• lelaba
• lelabah

Etymology

From Malay labah-labah, reduplication of labah, perhaps from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq₂. Compare Ilocano lawwa, Maguindanao lalawa, and Bikol Central lawa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌlaba ˈlaba/ [ˌla.ba ˈla.ba]

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• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: la‧ba-la‧ba

Noun

laba-laba (plural laba-laba)

1. spider

References

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lawaq₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI