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吗喽

嗎嘍
ma lou

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ma lou
  1. 1.(slang) monkey (often used humorously or self-deprecatingly by overworked laborers)

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  1. 1.monkey (Classifier: 隻/只 c)
  2. 2.monkey; little monkey (used for children, subordinates, etc.)

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Etymology

Unknown. Some possibilities for the etymology: * A substrate Tai-Kadai loanword, compare Zhuang maxlaeuz (“monkey”), Lingao ma² lu² (“monkey”), Gelao mu⁶ lau². * From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m(j/r)uk. Cognate with Burmese မျောက် (myauk, “monkey”) and possibly 猱 (OC *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us, “yellow-haired monkey”). Compare 母猴 (OC *mɯʔ ɡoː, “macaque”), 沐猴 (OC *moːɡ ɡoː, “macaque”), 獼猴 (OC *mnel ɡoː, “macaque”) and 馬猴/马猴 (mǎhóu, “macaque”). The latter has the same pre-initial.

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