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Entry

1  rahalahy

Part of speech

2  noun

Explanations in Malagasy

3 Lehilahy iray ray sy iray reny amin' ny lehilahy iray hafa: Manana rahalahy efatra Rakoto 4 Ny lehilahy iray ray na iray reny fotsiny amin' ny lehilahy hafa koa dia atao hoe rahalahy, toy izany koa ny lehilahy vadin' ny olona mirahavavy amin' ny vadin' ny tena dia antsoina koa hoe rahalahy. [1.1]

Explanations in English

5 A brother of a man; lit. when masculine. Comp. anadahy [1.2] 6 A man has rahalahy and an anabavy [1.26#13] 7 The brother of a man; cf. anadahy [1.7]

Explanations in French

8 Frère d'un frère [1.54] 9 Le frère d'un homme; cf. anadahy [1.8]

Examples

10  Miarahaba anao aho, ry rahalahy! [2.583#4] 11  Raha rahalahy tsy marina, tapaka ihany fa tsy namana, ka anaro; [2.69#224] 12  Misy koa anefa milaza fa nanana rahalahy natao hoe Andriankotofananina Andriamanelo. [2.508#336]

Morphology

13  Simple : rahalahy, rahalahiko, rahalahinao, rahalahiny, rahalahintsika, rahalahinay, rahalahinareo, rahalahin', rahalahin-, rahalahim- 14  Prefixed : -drahalahy, -drahalahiko, -drahalahinao, -drahalahiny, -drahalahintsika, -drahalahinay, -drahalahinareo, -drahalahin', -drahalahin-, -drahalahim-

Derivatives

Relative verbs : 15  irahalahiana Names : 16  firahalahiana, 17  firahalahy, 18  mpirahalahy Adjectives : 19  mirahalahy

Vocabulary

20  Relationships: family

Analogs

21  anabavy, 22  anadahy, 23  rahavavy

All compound words

24  4 combinations of that word

Proverbs

25  Proverbs containing that word

Article

26 Randzavola: rahalahy ao amin' ny Baiboly

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Updated on 2025/11/09