ma-loo

Chinese Pidgin English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 馬路 / 马路 (maa5 lou6).

Noun

ma-loo

1. main street

References

• Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, pages 106–107: “Ma-loo: a main street, (lit. horse street). In Shanghai the principal thoroughfare, the Nanking Road, is called by the Chinese the Dah Ma-loo, i.e., The Great Horse Street.”