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拉
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Definitions
- 1. to pull
- 2. to play (a bowed instrument)
- 3. to drag
- 4. to draw
- 5. to chat
- 6. (coll.) to empty one's bowels
Example Sentences
1 shown瑪撒 拉 ！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 拉
cefradine, cephradine (pharm.)
Vladimir
Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), president of France 1995-2007
Marathi language of west India
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name
Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge
Gujral (name)
lira (monetary unit) (loanword)
one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb)
see 孜然[zī rán], cumin
Julia Gillard (1961-), Australian politician, prime minister 2010-2013
Diego Maradona (1960-), Argentine footballer
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Drammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)
Marat (name)
Dar es Salaam (former capital of Tanzania)
Lancang Lahuzu Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
teh tarik, an Indian-style tea with milk
Madeira
Nebraska, US state
Lavrov (name)
to make ceramics (on a potter's wheel)
Spanish Sahara (former Spanish colony in Africa)
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[kè luó dì yà]
Shealtiel (son of Jeconiah)
Rania (name)
lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom)
Abraham (name)
Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Montserrat
Lala, Philippines
Kampala, capital of Uganda
Paracelsius (Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), Swiss alchemist and prominent early European scientist
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
tiramisu (loanword)
Salamanca, Spain
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa
Kevlar
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
Rajasthan (state in India)
Cleopatra (name)
zipper
Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai autonomous county in Lincang 臨滄|临沧[lín cāng], Yunnan
cholera (loanword)
Granada, Spain
(loanword) tolar, currency of Slovenia 1991-2007
Rafah, city in Palestine
to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom)
Loughborough University
salad spinner
to bring to the same level
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc)
Larnaca (city in Cyprus)
romanization
William Bradley \Brad\ Pitt (1963-), US actor and film producer
candela (unit of luminosity)
Pilate (Pontius Pilate in the Biblical passion story)
Lagos (Nigerian city)
Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God
gum arabic
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
koala (loanword)
(coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly)
Guadalajara
die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter)
Stratford-upon-Avon
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos
Bengali (language)
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
Tripura (Indian state)
Lhasa, capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[xī zàng zì zhì qū]
Pythagoras
Adderall (stimulant drug)
salad oil
Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
Marathi language of west India
Delilah (person name)
fellah (loanword)
Asmara, capital of Eritrea
L'Aquila, Italy
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[bā yīn guō léng měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
Krakow
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
sagging
Rugby (game)
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Faraday (name)
Alabama, US state
Syracuse, Sicily
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
see 貢多拉|贡多拉[gòng duō lā]
Kevlar
Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
to pull sb close to oneself
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河[huáng hé] Huang He river
Halmahera, an island of Indonesia
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
Raphael
the Himalayas
Madras or Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[qīn nài], capital of Tamil Nadu on East coast of India
Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
Ramadan (loanword)
Oklahoma, US state
Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
Arab Common Market
to try to stop a fight
Gujarat, state in west India
(name) Larson, Larsen, Larsson or Lassen etc
Port Vila, capital of Vanuatu
(dialect) extremely
Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea
P.A.M. Dirac (1902-1984), British physicist
Barbara (name)
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特[yà xī ěr · ā lā fǎ tè]
to solicit (guests, clients, passengers etc)
Lazarus (Catholic transliteration)
People's Republic of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
Gyanendra of Nepal
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
to poop
to-and-fro tussle
Labrang Monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-'khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河縣|夏河县[xià hé xiàn], Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
Alabama, US state
to pull up
Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[dào fú xiàn], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan
Dalad banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯[è ěr duō sī], Inner Mongolia
Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020), former Egyptian President and military commander
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
Saracen Empire (medieval European name for Arab empire)
Xunhua Salazu autonomous county in Haidong prefecture 海東地區|海东地区[hǎi dōng dì qū], Qinghai
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
a cappella (loanword)
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira)
to add sb to one's blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc)
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
Lazio (region in Italy)
Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)
Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
to procrastinate
Bujumbura, capital of Burundi
Colorado
Dombra or Tambura, Kazakh plucked lute
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
to draw
Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano
non-Latin characters
Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Yugoslavia, 1943-1992
Nicaragua
(loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)
Arras, town in northern France
a handle
to defecate; to shit; to crap
cholera (loanword)
salami (loanword)
drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched)
Book of Ezra
Abdullah (name)
Flushing Chinatown, a predominantly Chinese and Korean neighborhood of Queens, New York City
Bradford, city in West Yorkshire, England
Karachi (Pakistan)
see 是騾子是馬，牽出來遛遛|是骡子是马，牵出来遛遛[shì luó zi shì mǎ , qiān chū lai liù liu]
(dialect) to chat
Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
to drag (sb) along (to a place)
Dalad banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯[è ěr duō sī], Inner Mongolia
to pull tight
Maracaibo, Venezuela
Pomerania, a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea
to drag along
to campaign for votes
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]
Dallas
mozzarella (loanword)
Tarawa, capital of Kiribati
lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom)
Paraguay
Hailar District of Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[hū lún bèi ěr shì], Inner Mongolia
Cadillac
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
roll-up banner stand
(Philippine President Fidel) Ramos
ring pull (can)
gondola (Venetian boat) (loanword)
Alaska, US state
sparse and fragmentary
hula hoop (loanword)
salad (loanword)
Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker
to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit
Sarah Palin (1964-), US Republican politician, State governor of Alaska from 2006
(Taiwan) see 嘰哩咕嚕|叽哩咕噜[jī li gū lū]
tensile strength
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
Delaware, US state
(nasty, stupid etc) as can be
University of Manila
Trafalgar Square (London)
carageenan (chemistry)
a Saudi
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999
Hera (wife of Zeus)
Mladić (name)
Nebraska, US state
Colorado
to poo-poo (kiddie talk)
trendy; eye-catching; flashy
Rameses (name of pharaoh)
Asia, Africa and Latin America
Kendra (name)
Alaskan malamute
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
Gela (city in Sicily)
Cleopatra (c. 70-30 BC), queen of Egypt
to pull
salad dressing
Alabama, US state
Rabat, capital of Morocco
to pull open
(coll.) to have diarrhea
Allah (Arabic name of God)
Trafalgar Square (London)
Saudi Arabia
Platonism
to tout
lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)
Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands
Laval (name)
the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
Malawi
Iraq
Western Sahara
Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician
Siraya, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
(coll.) to push lightly
(onom.)
Angola
Paramount Pictures (US movie company)
Lassa virus
Ladakh, the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir in northwest India, adjacent to Kashmir and Tibet, know as \Little Tibet\",2025-02-14 13:18:21,2025-02-14 13:18:21 89778,62339,Prince Norodom Ranariddh (1944-)
to force into service
Ural Mountains
former Yugoslavia (1945-1992)
salad (loanword)
Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994
Ankara, capital of Turkey
Cinerama
Pisistratus (-528 BC), tyrant (ruler) of Athens at different times between 561 BC and 528 BC
Salar, language of Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
Andhra Pradesh or Andhra State in southeast India
to procure
Hillary (name)
pulling force
Glasgow, Scotland
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang
mole cricket
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基[tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī]
Shangri-La County in Dêqên or Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], northwest Yunnan
to bring (people) closer together
Karamay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
Dhaulagiri, mountain massif in the Himalayas
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
Van de Graaff generator
Ferrari
Vala (Middle-earth)
Karabilah (Iraqi city)
woman's dress (loanword from Russian)
to lengthen
Vladivostok (Russian port city) (Chinese name: 海參崴|海参崴[hǎi shēn wǎi])
Sahrawi
arabinose (type of sugar)
Delaware, US state
to join hands
Karakhan dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century
mozzarella (loanword)
Karl Berngardovich Radek (1885-1939), Bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, died in prison during Stalin's purges
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]
Arabian Peninsula
to drag
camera (loanword)
Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
Oklahoma City
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian inventor and engineer
Slavic language
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Delacroix (painter)
Lacan (psychoanalyst)
client pull (computing)
Syrah (grape type)
Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy
Venezuela
Malachi
Urat Center banner or Urdyn Dund khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Motorola
Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
University of Alaska
Delaware River, between Pennsylvania and Delaware state, USA
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep
Sea of Marmara
Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Züün khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
Himalayas
(dialect) shrike
see 普拉提[pǔ lā tí]
sub-Saharan
tractor
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry
Curaçao
to drag sb along against his will
(dialect) to chat
Garab Dorje Rinpoche, succession of Buthanese religious leaders
Guatemala
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Maserati
Sahrawi (person)
Herat (city in Afghanistan)
Accra, capital of Ghana
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia)
a two-man saw
(Manchu loanword) knucklebones
Fitzgerald (name)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
gulag (loanword)
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
Kevlar
Urat Rear banner or Urdyn Xoit khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Sodom and Gomorrah
to shake hands
a Pandora's box
Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver)
vuvuzela (horn blown by sports fans)
Durrës (city in Albania)
Pula (city in Croatia)
Latin dance
Alxa league, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Bengal
to pull
Himalayas
Arabic (language)
Sulawesi or Celebes (Indonesian Island)
Sara or Sarah (name)
(loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
rabbi (loanword)
Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan
Morales
Mohamed ElBaradei (1942-), Director of International Atomic Energy Agency 1997-2009 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
(of a performer) to put on a show at an outdoor venue (temple fair, marketplace etc)
Graham or Graeme (name)
Latin America
Rasmussen (name)
piracetam (loanword)
see 沙撈越|沙捞越[shā lāo yuè]
see 鉚釘槍|铆钉枪[mǎo dīng qiāng]
Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac
Lagrange (name)
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
fuck!
Oklahoma, US state
Guatemalan (person)
Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[dào fú xiàn], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan
Arabian Sea
to assume a fighting stance
marathon (loanword)
Taiwan equivalent of 希拉里[xī lā lǐ]
rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
Harald V of Norway
see 貢多拉|贡多拉[gòng duō lā]
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[bā yīn guō léng měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Paramaribo, capital of Suriname
Lapland (northern Europe)
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
lorazepam
Latin America
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus
lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb)
incomplete
Arab Telecommunication Union
Van de Graaff (name)
Newfoundland and Labrador, province of Canada
Taklamakan (desert)
Shangri-La (mythical location)
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Francisella tularensis
New Latin
Noord Brabant, Netherlands
Latin square (math. puzzle)
Karamay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
to tug at
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader
marathon race
Slavic
Alaska, US state
Godzilla
Bellamy
Arabian
like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom)
(fig.) to raise the curtain
chakra (loanword)
raffia (loanword)
karaoke (loanword)
Gomorrah
Petrarch
Stratford (place name)
Laguerre (name)
Anchorage (Alaska)
Manila, capital of Philippines
to pull down
to wear (one's shoes) like babouche slippers
para para, a Eurobeat dance originating in Japan, with synchronized upper body movements (loanword from Japanese)
Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border
Honduras
Zipporah, wife of Moses
Talas River, originating in Kyrgyzstan and flowing west into Kazakhstan
Arab
Braşov, Romania
capoeira (loanword)
roller (loanword)
Sacramento
rally (car race) (loanword)
Morgan Tsvangirai (1952-2018), Zimbabwean politician
Prada (brand)
lit. to blame the toilet because one is having difficulty completing a bowel movement (idiom)
West Bengal
Gujarat, Indian state
Torabora mountain area in east Afghanistan, famous for its caves
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Canberra, capital of Australia
Bratislava
lit. to take a dump while riding on sb's shoulders (idiom)
Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history
brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
Las Palmas, Spain
to pull into
Loughborough, English city
guava (loanword from Taiwanese)
Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster
pinky swear
Las Vegas, Nevada
Graz (city in Austria)
Krakatoa (volcanic island in Indonesia)
Cantonese sponge cake also known as mara cake
Sharapova (Russian female tennis star)
trombone
Mullah (religious leader in Islam)
Barbara or Barbra (name)
Alabama, US state
Motorola
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology)
Herat province of Afghanistan
Latin (language)
Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang
Ebola (virus)
Horace, full Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), Roman poet
Hetu Ala (Manchu: Yellow Rock), Nurhaci's capital at the 1619 Battle of Sarhu
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name)
Ibrahim (name)
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
Urat Front banner or Urdyn Ömnöd khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader and war criminal
Lhasa, Tibetan: Lha sa grong khyer, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[xī zàng zì zhì qū]
Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan
Cassandra (given name)
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
Zaragoza, Spain
Sahara
Aramaic (language)
Labrador, Canada
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[táng jí hē dé]
Sera monastery near Lhasa, Tibet
neo-Platonism (philosophical system combining Platonism with mysticism)
Melanesia
Hailar District of Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[hū lún bèi ěr shì], Inner Mongolia
Bokhara or Bukhara city in Uzbekistan
Arafura Sea
Pilates (physical fitness system)
Lahu ethnic group of Yunnan
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[qí qí hā ěr], Heilongjiang
sriracha (loanword)
Latin alphabet
Karamay District of Karamay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市[kè lā mǎ yī shì], Xinjiang
pull-top can
Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Heraclitus (535-475 BC), pre-Socratic philosopher
Nalat grasslands
to sweep
Latin (language)
(slang) to take ketamine
Pandora
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[lín xià huí zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
Book of Malachi
sliding door
lactitol, a sugar alcohol
carat (mass) (loanword)
Tel Aviv
Appalachian Mountains in North America
riviera (loanword)
Sahara Desert
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
Strasbourg
Mt Potala in Lhasa, with Potala Palace 布達拉宮|布达拉宫
Epistle of St Paul to the Galatians
Arabic (language & writing)
disorganized
Krasnoyarsk
Shambhala, mythical place (Buddhism, Hinduism)
Lafargue (name)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil
(coll.) to have diarrhea
French dressing
Barack, Barak, Ballack (name)
Karamchand (name)
(fig.) to give a boost to
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States
pushing and pulling (idiom)
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[bā yīn guō léng měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Hong Kong) to filibuster
the alphabet
Gerrard (name)
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]
Barabbas (in the Biblical passion story)
Pontius Pilate (in the Biblical passion story)
Tallahassee, capital of Florida
(coll.) half
Tuscola (county in Michigan)
craton (loanword)
Karakorum mountains
stretching (exercise)
Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
trust (commerce) (loanword)
Adderall (stimulant drug)
hand chain pulley block
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
tension bar
Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea
see 老牛破車|老牛破车[lǎo niú pò chē]
Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
pulled noodles
(dialect) saliva
Trafalgar
Zola (name)
Praia, capital of Cape Verde
Nyalam county, Tibetan: Gnya' lam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Razumovsky (name)
Latvia
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Lafayette
Zerah (son of Judah)
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
Maharashtra (state in India)
chest expander (exercise equipment)
Bay of Bengal
tiramisu (loanword)
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
Málaga, Spain
Lahore (city in Pakistan)
Maulana Fazlullah, Pakistan Taleban leader
Krakatoa island and volcano in the Sunda Strait
flamenco (loanword)
Douglas (name)
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
to start a clique
Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[dào fú xiàn], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan
to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
Lindeblatt (name)
Marrakech (city in Morocco)
Syracuse, Sicily
Gera (city in Germany)
Mt Yarla Shampo, in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县[dào fú xiàn], Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan
Avila, Spain
(coll.) to bring up
Saladin (c. 1138-1193)
Tirana, capital of Albania
Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), former US Secretary of Defense
cheerleading squad
to droop
Brahms (name)
zipper
Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[qīng zàng gāo yuán]
to pull a long face
Basra (city in Iraq)
Gillard (name)
Aurora, Roman goddess of dawn
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician
Karbala (city in Iraq)
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician
Eilat, Israeli port and resort on the Red sea
Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang
Goslar, Germany
Beira, Mozambique
Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
tied down by family obligations
Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University
Cassandra (given name)
Ebola virus
Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[kěn ní dí háng tiān zhōng xīn]
Euphrates River
Ebola (virus)
ayatollah (religious leader in Shia Islam)
(of beard etc) stubbly
Sierra Leone
farad, SI unit of electrical capacitance (loanword)
Merapi (volcano on Java)
Gujarat, state in west India
antitrust (loanword)
cart
Alamo, city in United States
to look displeased
Uppsala, Swedish university city just north of Stockholm
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
Kerala (state in India)
sub-Saharan Africa
Latin
Galapagos Islands
Nyalam county, Tibetan: Gnya' lam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔[bā yàn nào ěr], Inner Mongolia
Michaela (name)
Ralph (name)
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
to defecate (slang)
Krajina (former Yugoslavia)
to have a facelift
Sandra (name)
vuvuzela (horn) (loanword)
Uruguay
Prague, capital of Czech Republic
Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
State Great Khural or Great State Assembly, Mongolian parliament
to rope in
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century
Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, north India, home of Tibetan government in exile
Araba or Álava
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥[duō gē]
Clark or Clarke (name)
Ramallah
Anguilla
Flemish, inhabitant of Flanders (Belgium)
Papora or Papura, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era