Definitions

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  • noun music Alternative spelling of la.
  • preposition , Placed at the end of a sentence either for emphasis or reassurance.

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  • noun the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization

Etymologies

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An anglicised spelling of la.

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Examples

  • Practically Kabílah is the tribe, Ashírah the clan, and Bayt the household; while Hayy may be anything between tribe and kith and kin.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • If only I had a log of wood to throw at somebody’s head when I pull out my phone for a completely legitimate reason and everyone around me goes ooo lah lah is that an IPHONE?????

    i-wood helps you with tech envy 2009

  • Allah is something that you cannot imagine, because it’s beyond everything, and so it is the big “ah” at the end of the word lah that designates the nothingness.

    Some Common Features of Islam and Buddhism: A Conversation with Snjezana Akpinar and Alex Berzin 2009

  • ¶ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gib'e-ah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us Ps. 54.1 -- 0.1 in strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachi'lah, which is on the south of Jeshi'mon?

    1 Samuel 23. 1999

  • And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpe'lah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

    Genesis 49. 1999

  • And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachi'lah, which is before Jeshi'mon, by the way.

    1 Samuel 26. 1999

  • And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gib'e-ah, saying, Doth not David hide himself Ps. 54.1 -- 0.1 in the hill of Hachi'lah, which is before Jeshi'mon?

    1 Samuel 26. 1999

  • If you're like me with some memory problem, I can't be bothered to memorize everyone's name lah

    Planet MYOSS 2009

  • If you're like me with some memory problem, I can't be bothered to memorize everyone's name lah

    Planet MYOSS 2009

  • If you're like me with some memory problem, I can't be bothered to memorize everyone's name lah

    Planet MYOSS 2009

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