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  1. 1. to pull
  2. 2. to play (a bowed instrument)
  3. 3. to drag
  4. 4. to draw
  5. 5. to chat
  6. 6. (coll.) to empty one's bowels

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Words Containing 拉

拉动
lā dòng

to pull

拉拢
lā lǒng

to rope in

拉锁
lā suǒ

zipper

拉开
lā kāi

to pull open

易拉罐
yì lā guàn

pull-top can

阿拉伯语
ā lā bó yǔ

Arabic (language)

不拉叽
bù lā jī

(nasty, stupid etc) as can be

不拉几
bù lā jī

(dialect) extremely

乃堆拉
nǎi duī lā

Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)

乃堆拉山口
nǎi duī lā shān kǒu

Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)

亚伯拉罕
yà bó lā hǎn

Abraham (name)

亚拉巴马
yà lā bā mǎ

Alabama, US state

亚拉巴马州
yà lā bā mǎ zhōu

Alabama, US state

亚西尔·阿拉法特
yà xī ěr · ā lā fǎ tè

Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat

亚非拉
yà fēi lā

Asia, Africa and Latin America

以斯拉记
yǐ sī lā jì

Book of Ezra

伊拉克
yī lā kè

Iraq

伊斯帕尼奥拉
yī sī pà ní ào lā

Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)

伊波拉
yī bō lā

Ebola (virus)

伯拉第斯拉瓦
bó lā dì sī lā wǎ

Bratislava, capital of Slovakia

俄克拉何马
é kè lā hé mǎ

Oklahoma, US state

俄克拉何马城
é kè lā hé mǎ chéng

Oklahoma City

俄克拉何马州
é kè lā hé mǎ zhōu

Oklahoma, US state

杰拉
jié lā

Gela (city in Sicily)

杰拉德
jié lā dé

Gerrard (name)

克基拉岛
kè jī lā dǎo

Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea

克娄巴特拉
kè lóu bā tè lā

Cleopatra (name)

克拉
kè lā

carat (mass) (loanword)

克拉克
kè lā kè

Clark or Clarke (name)

克拉夫丘克
kè lā fū qiū kè

Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994

克拉斯诺亚尔斯克
kè lā sī nuò yà ěr sī kè

Krasnoyarsk

克拉斯诺达尔
kè lā sī nuò dá ěr

Krasnodar (city in Russia)

克拉斯金诺
kè lā sī jīn nuò

Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border

克拉玛依
kè lā mǎ yī

Karamay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang

克拉玛依区
kè lā mǎ yī qū

Karamay District of Karamay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市[kè lā mǎ yī shì], Xinjiang

克拉玛依市
kè lā mǎ yī shì

Karamay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang

克拉科夫
kè lā kē fū

Krakow

克拉通
kè lā tōng

craton (loanword)

克维拉
kè wéi lā

Kevlar

克莉奥佩特拉
kè lì ào pèi tè lā

Cleopatra (c. 70-30 BC), queen of Egypt

内布拉斯加
nèi bù lā sī jiā

Nebraska, US state

内布拉斯加州
nèi bù lā sī jiā zhōu

Nebraska, US state

冬不拉
dōng bù lā

Dombra or Tambura, Kazakh plucked lute

凯夫拉
kǎi fū lā

Kevlar

凯芙拉
kǎi fú lā

Kevlar

凯迪拉克
kǎi dí lā kè

Cadillac

切格瓦拉
qiè gé wǎ lā

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader

划拉
huá la

to sweep

刚朵拉
gāng duǒ lā

see 貢多拉|贡多拉[gòng duō lā]

加拉加斯
jiā lā jiā sī

Caracas, capital of Venezuela

加拉太书
jiā lā tài shū

Epistle of St Paul to the Galatians

加拉巴哥斯
jiā lā bā gē sī

Galapagos

加拉巴哥斯群岛
jiā lā bā gē sī qún dǎo

Galapagos Islands

加拉帕戈斯群岛
jiā lā pà gē sī qún dǎo

Galapagos Islands

加拉罕
jiā lā hǎn

Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge

勃拉姆斯
bó lā mǔ sī

Brahms (name)

劳拉西泮
láo lā xī pàn

lorazepam

北布拉班特
běi bù lā bān tè

Noord Brabant, Netherlands

半半拉拉
bàn bàn lā lā

incomplete

半拉
bàn lǎ

(coll.) half

南斯拉夫
nán sī lā fū

Yugoslavia, 1943-1992

博拉博拉岛
bó lā bó lā dǎo

Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia

博尔塔拉蒙古自治州
bó ěr tǎ lā měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu

Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang

占着茅坑不拉屎
zhàn zhe máo kēng bù lā shǐ

lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb)

卡拉
kǎ lā

Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥[duō gē]

卡拉OK
kǎ lā o k

karaoke (loanword)

卡拉什尼科夫
kǎ lā shí ní kē fū

Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)

卡拉奇
kǎ lā qí

Karachi (Pakistan)

卡拉奇那
kǎ lā jī nà

Krajina (former Yugoslavia)

卡拉姆昌德
kǎ lā mǔ chāng dé

Karamchand (name)

卡拉季奇
kǎ lā jì jī

Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader and war criminal

卡拉布里亚
kǎ lā bù lǐ yà

Calabria, southernmost Italian province

卡拉比拉
kǎ lā bǐ lā

Karabilah (Iraqi city)

卡拉胶
kǎ lā jiāo

carageenan (chemistry)

卡拉马佐夫兄弟
kǎ lā mǎ zuǒ fū xiōng dì

Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基[tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī]

卡桑德拉
kǎ sāng dé lā

Cassandra (given name)

卡波耶拉
kǎ bō yē lā

capoeira (loanword)

卡尔巴拉
kǎ ěr bā lā

Karbala (city in Iraq)

卡珊德拉
kǎ shān dé lā

Cassandra (given name)

卡纳维拉尔角
kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo

Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[kěn ní dí háng tiān zhōng xīn]

卡美拉
kǎ měi lā

Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster

危地马拉
wēi dì mǎ lā

Guatemala

危地马拉人
wēi dì mǎ lā rén

Guatemalan (person)

原南斯拉夫
yuán nán sī lā fū

former Yugoslavia (1945-1992)

反托拉斯
fǎn tuō lā sī

antitrust (loanword)

古杰拉尔
gǔ jié lā ěr

Gujral (name)

古杰拉特邦
gǔ jié lā tè bāng

Gujarat, Indian state

古吉拉特
gǔ jí lā tè

Gujarat, state in west India

古吉拉特邦
gǔ jí lā tè bāng

Gujarat, state in west India

古拉格
gǔ lā gé

gulag (loanword)

吃喝拉撒睡
chī hē lā sā shuì

to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep

各拉丹冬山
gè lā dān dōng shān

Mount Geladaindong or Geladandong in Qinghai (6621 m), the main peak of the Tanggula mountain range 唐古拉山脈|唐古拉山脉[táng gǔ lā shān mài]

各拉丹冬峰
gè lā dān dōng fēng

Mount Geladaindong or Geladandong in Qinghai (6621 m), the main peak of the Tanggula mountain range 唐古拉山脈|唐古拉山脉[táng gǔ lā shān mài]

吉拉尼
jí lā ní

Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012

吉拉德
jí lā dé

Gillard (name)

吡拉西坦
bǐ lā xī tǎn

piracetam (loanword)

呼拉圈
hū lā quān

hula hoop (loanword)

哈拉子
hā lā zi

(dialect) saliva

哈拉尔五世
hā lā ěr wǔ shì

Harald V of Norway

哈拉雷
hā lā léi

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

哈马黑拉岛
hā mǎ hēi lā dǎo

Halmahera, an island of Indonesia

哥斯拉
gē sī lā

Godzilla

唐古拉
táng gǔ lā

Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[qīng zàng gāo yuán]

唐古拉山
táng gǔ lā shān

Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

唐古拉山脉
táng gǔ lā shān mài

Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

喀拉喀托
kā lā kā tuō

Krakatoa island and volcano in the Sunda Strait

喀拉喀托火山
kā lā kā tuō huǒ shān

Krakatoa (volcanic island in Indonesia)

喀拉昆仑山
kā lā kūn lún shān

Karakorum mountains

喀拉拉邦
kā lā lā bāng

Kerala (state in India)

喀拉汗国
kā lā hán guó

Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century

喀拉汗王朝
kā lā hán wáng cháo

Karakhan dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century

喜马拉雅
xǐ mǎ lā yǎ

the Himalayas

喜马拉雅山
xǐ mǎ lā yǎ shān

Himalayas

喜马拉雅山脉
xǐ mǎ lā yǎ shān mài

Himalayas

呜呜祖拉
wū wū zǔ lā

vuvuzela (horn) (loanword)

嗡嗡祖拉
wēng wēng zǔ lā

vuvuzela (horn blown by sports fans)

嘎拉哈
gā lā hà

(Manchu loanword) knucklebones

噶拉
gá lā

(onom.)

噶拉·多杰·仁波切
gá lā · duō jié · rén bō qiè

Garab Dorje Rinpoche, succession of Buthanese religious leaders

土拉弗氏菌
tǔ lā fú shì jūn

Francisella tularensis

地拉那
dì lā nà

Tirana, capital of Albania

坎帕拉
kǎn pà lā

Kampala, capital of Uganda

坎德拉
kǎn dé lā

candela (unit of luminosity)

坦博拉
tǎn bó lā

Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history

埃博拉
āi bó lā

Ebola (virus)

埃博拉病毒
āi bó lā bìng dú

Ebola virus

埃拉托塞尼斯
āi lā tuō sè ní sī

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor

埃拉特
āi lā tè

Eilat, Israeli port and resort on the Red sea

埃文河畔斯特拉特福
āi wén hé pàn sī tè lā tè fú

Stratford-upon-Avon

埃迪卡拉
āi dí kǎ lā

Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era

埃迪卡拉纪
āi dí kǎ lā jì

Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era

基拉韦厄
jī lā wéi è

Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano

堤拉米苏
dī lā mǐ sū

tiramisu (loanword)

堪培拉
kān péi lā

Canberra, capital of Australia

塔克拉玛干沙漠
tǎ kè lā mǎ gān shā mò

Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang

塔克拉马干
tǎ kè lā mǎ gān

Taklamakan (desert)

塔拉哈西
tǎ lā hā xī

Tallahassee, capital of Florida

塔拉斯河
tǎ lā sī hé

Talas River, originating in Kyrgyzstan and flowing west into Kazakhstan

塔拉瓦
tǎ lā wǎ

Tarawa, capital of Kiribati

塔斯科拉
tǎ sī kē lā

Tuscola (county in Michigan)

塞拉利昂
sài lā lì áng

Sierra Leone

大利拉
dà lì lā

Delilah (person name)

大呼拉尔
dà hū lā ěr

State Great Khural or Great State Assembly, Mongolian parliament

姆拉迪奇
mǔ lā dí qí

Mladić (name)

委内瑞拉
wěi nèi ruì lā

Venezuela

委内瑞拉马脑炎病毒
wěi nèi ruì lā mǎ nǎo yán bìng dú

Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus

妈拉个巴子
mā lā ge bā zi

fuck!

孟加拉
mèng jiā lā

Bengal

孟加拉人民共和国
mèng jiā lā rén mín gòng hé guó

People's Republic of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)

孟加拉国
mèng jiā lā guó

Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)

孟加拉湾
mèng jiā lā wān

Bay of Bengal

孟加拉语
mèng jiā lā yǔ

Bengali (language)

孟连傣族拉祜族佤族自治县
mèng lián dǎi zú lā hù zú wǎ zú zì zhì xiàn

Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan

安克拉治
ān kè lā zhì

Anchorage (Alaska)

安卡拉
ān kǎ lā

Ankara, capital of Turkey

安哥拉
ān gē lā

Angola

安圭拉
ān guī lā

Anguilla

安得拉邦
ān dé lā bāng

Andhra Pradesh or Andhra State in southeast India

安拉
ān lā

Allah (Arabic name of God)

安东尼与克莉奥佩特拉
ān dōng ní yǔ kè lì ào pèi tè lā

Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚

富拉尔基
fù lā ěr jī

Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang

富拉尔基区
fù lā ěr jī qū

Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang

尼亚加拉瀑布
ní yà jiā lā pù bù

Niagara Falls

尼加拉瓜
ní jiā lā guā

Nicaragua

峇拉煎
bā lā jiān

(loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)

左拉
zuǒ lā

Zola (name)

巴士拉
bā shì lā

Basra (city in Iraq)

巴巴拉
bā bā lā

Barbara (name)

巴布拉族
bā bù lā zú

Papora or Papura, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan

巴拉克
bā lā kè

Barack, Barak, Ballack (name)

巴拉圭
bā lā guī

Paraguay

巴拉基列夫
bā lā jī liè fū

M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer

巴拉巴斯
bā lā bā sī

Barabbas (in the Biblical passion story)

巴拉迪
bā lā dí

Mohamed ElBaradei (1942-), Director of International Atomic Energy Agency 1997-2009 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

巴颜喀拉
bā yán kā lā

Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河[huáng hé] Huang He river

布哈拉
bù hā lā

Bokhara or Bukhara city in Uzbekistan

布拉吉
bù lā jí

woman's dress (loanword from Russian)

布拉德·彼特
bù lā dé · bǐ tè

William Bradley \Brad\ Pitt (1963-), US actor and film producer

布拉德福德
bù lā dé fú dé

Bradford, city in West Yorkshire, England

布拉戈维申斯克
bù lā gē wéi shēn sī kè

Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Oblast 阿穆爾州|阿穆尔州[ā mù ěr zhōu]

布拉柴维尔
bù lā chái wéi ěr

Brazzaville, capital of Congo

布拉格
bù lā gé

Prague, capital of Czech Republic

布拉索夫
bù lā suǒ fū

Braşov, Romania

布拉迪斯拉发
bù lā dí sī lā fā

Bratislava

布琼布拉
bù qióng bù lā

Bujumbura, capital of Burundi

布达拉宫
bù dá lā gōng

Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet

布达拉山
bù dá lā shān

Mt Potala in Lhasa, with Potala Palace 布達拉宮|布达拉宫

希拉克
xī lā kè

Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), president of France 1995-2007

希拉蕊
xī lā ruǐ

Taiwan equivalent of 希拉里[xī lā lǐ]

希拉里
xī lā lǐ

Hillary (name)

希拉里·克林顿
xī lā lǐ · kè lín dùn

Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician

希波克拉底
xī bō kè lā dǐ

Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine

帕拉塞尔士
pà lā sè ěr shì

Paracelsius (Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), Swiss alchemist and prominent early European scientist

帕拉马里博
pà lā mǎ lǐ bó

Paramaribo, capital of Suriname

幼发拉底河
yòu fā lā dǐ hé

Euphrates River

庇西特拉图
bì xī tè lā tú

Pisistratus (-528 BC), tyrant (ruler) of Athens at different times between 561 BC and 528 BC

库拉索
kù lā suǒ

Curaçao

库木吐拉千佛洞
kù mù tǔ lā qiān fó dòng

Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang

弗拉基米尔
fú lā jī mǐ ěr

Vladimir

弗拉芒
fú lā máng

Flemish, inhabitant of Flanders (Belgium)