walau
Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wà.làu/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [wə̀.làu]
Ideophone
wàlàu
- 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
- although, even though
- even if
Synonyms
- (although): walaupun, meski, meskipun, kendati, sungguhpun
References
- 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 29420936
Further reading
- “walau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.