(w)

(lā) to pull; to play (string instruments); to drag; to draw; to chat

拉丁 (w)

(lādīng) Latin; (in former times) to press-gang; to kidnap and force people into service

拉丁化 (w)

(lādīnghuà) romanization

拉丁字母 (w)

(lādīngzìmǔ) Latin alphabet

拉丁文 (w)

(lādīngwén) Latin (language)

拉丁文字 (w)

(lādīngwénzì) the alphabet; latin letters

拉丁方块 (w)

(lādīngfāngkuài) Latin square (math. puzzle)

拉丁美洲 (w)

(lādīngměizhōu) Latin America

拉丁舞 (w)

(lādīngwǔ) Latin American dancing

拉丁语 (w)

(lādīngyǔ) Latin (language)

拉什卡尔加 (w)

(lāshíkǎěrjiā) Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan

拉什莫尔山 (w)

(lāshímòěrshān) Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota

拉伸 (w)

(lāshēn) to draw; to stretch

拉个手 (w)

(lāgeshǒu) to hold hands

拉倒 (w)

(lādǎo) lit. pull and fall; (coll.) the deal is off; forget about it!; let it go at that!

拉伤 (w)

(lāshāng) to pull; to injure by straining

拉克替醇 (w)

(lākètìchún) lactitol, a sugar alcohol

拉入 (w)

(lārù) to pull into; to draw in

拉制 (w)

(lāzhì) manufacture

拉力 (w)

(lālì) tension

拉力赛 (w)

(lālìsài) rally (car race)(loanword)

拉勾儿 (w)

(lāgòur) to cross little fingers (between children) as a promise

拉包尔 (w)

(lābāoěr) Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea

拉匝禄 (w)

(lāzālù) Lazarus (Catholic transliteration)

拉卜楞寺 (w)

(lābǔlèngsì) Labrang monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-'khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河縣|夏河县[Xia4 he2 xian4], Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet

拉各斯 (w)

(lāgèsī) Lagos (Nigerian city)

拉合尔 (w)

(lāhéěr) Lahore (city in Pakistan)

拉圾 (w)

(lājī) variant of 垃圾; trash; refuse; garbage; Taiwan pr. [le4 se4]

拉大便 (w)

(làdàbiàn) to poop; to defecate

拉大旗作虎皮 (w)

(lādàqízuòhǔpí) lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom); fig. to borrow sb's prestige; to take the name of a great cause as a shield

拉大条 (w)

(lādàtiáo) to defecate (slang)

拉夫 (w)

(lāfū) to force into service; press-gang

拉夫堡 (w)

(lāfūbǎo) Loughborough, English city

拉夫堡大学 (w)

(lāfūbǎodàxué) Loughborough University

拉夫桑贾尼 (w)

(lāfūsāngjiǎní) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

拉夫罗夫 (w)

(lāfūluófū) Lavrov (name); Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004

拉奎拉 (w)

(lākuílā) L'Aquila, Italy

拉姆安拉 (w)

(lāmǔānlā) Ramallah

拉姆斯菲尔德 (w)

(lāmǔsīfēiěrdé) (Donald) Rumsfeld, secretary of Defense

拉孜 (w)

(lāzī) Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet

拉孜县 (w)

(lāzīxiàn) Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet

拉家带口 (w)

(lājiādàikǒu) to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family; tied down by family obligations

拉家常 (w)

(lājiācháng) to talk or chat about ordinary daily life

拉尼娜 (w)

(lānínà) La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺

拉尼娅 (w)

(lāníyà) Rania (name)

拉屎 (w)

(lāshǐ) to defecate; to shit; to crap

拉冈 (w)

(lāgāng) Lacan (psychoanalyst)

拉巴斯 (w)

(lābāsī) La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia

拉巴特 (w)

(lābātè) Rabat, capital of Morocco

拉布拉多 (w)

(lābùlāduō) Labrador, Canada; Labrador (a breed of dog)

拉帕斯 (w)

(lāpàsī) La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯

拉平 (w)

(lāpíng) to bring to the same level; to even up; to flare out; to flatten out

拉德 (w)

(lādé) rad (unit of radiation)

拉手 (w)

(lāshǒu) to hold hands; to shake hands

拉手 (w)

(lāshou) a handle; to pull on a handle

拉扯 (w)

(lāche) to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in; to chat

拉拉 (w)

(lālā) Lala, Philippines

拉拉 (w)

(lālā) lesbian (net slang)

拉拉队 (w)

(lālāduì) support team; cheering squad; cheerleader; also written 啦啦隊|啦啦队

拉撒路 (w)

(lāsǎlù) Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)

拉拢 (w)

(lālǒng) to rope in; fig. to involve sb; to entice

拉文克劳 (w)

(lāwénkèláo) Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)

拉文纳 (w)

(lāwénnà) Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy

拉斐尔 (w)

(lāfěiěr) Raphael

拉斐特 (w)

(lāfěitè) Lafayette

拉斯帕尔马斯 (w)

(lāsīpàěrmǎsī) Las Palmas, Spain

拉斯穆森 (w)

(lāsīmùsēn) Rasmussen (name)

拉斯维加斯 (w)

(lāsīwéijiāsī) Las Vegas, Nevada

拉普拉斯 (w)

(lāpǔlāsī) Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician

拉普兰 (w)

(lāpǔlán) Lapland (northern Europe)

拉杆 (w)

(lāgān) tension bar

拉架 (w)

(lājià) to try to stop a fight; to intervene in a fight

拉格朗日 (w)

(lāgélǎngrì) Lagrange (name); Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist

拉格比 (w)

(lāgébǐ) Rugby (game); Rugby school in England

拉比 (w)

(lābǐ) rabbi

拉沙病毒 (w)

(lāshābìngdú) Lassa virus

拉法格 (w)

(lāfǎgé) Lafargue (name); Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx

拉法兰 (w)

(lāfǎlán) Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac

拉法赫 (w)

(lāfǎhè) Rafah

拉尔维克 (w)

(lāěrwéikè) Larvik (city in Vestfold, Norway)

拉特格斯大学 (w)

(lātègésīdàxué) Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey)

拉狄克 (w)

(lādíkè) Karl Bernardovich Radek (1995-1939), bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen university, died in prison during Stalin's purges

拉环 (w)

(lāhuán) ring pull (can); strap handle (on bus or train); circular door handle

拉瓦尔 (w)

(lāwǎěr) Laval (name)

拉瓦锡 (w)

(lāwǎxī) Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry

拉登 (w)

(lādēng) (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda

拉皮 (w)

(lāpí) to have a facelift; facelift

拉皮条 (w)

(lāpítiáo) to procure; to act as pimp

拉祜族 (w)

(lāhùzú) Lahu ethnic group of Yunnan

拉票 (w)

(lāpiào) to campaign for votes; to ask voters for support

拉科鲁尼亚 (w)

(lākēlǔníyà) La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)

拉筋 (w)

(lājīn) stretching (exercise)

拉管 (w)

(lāguǎn) trombone

拉米夫定 (w)

(lāmǐfūdìng) Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS; brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV

拉纳卡 (w)

(lānàkǎ) Larnaca (city in Cyprus); Larnaka

拉丝模 (w)

(lāsīmó) die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter)

拉紧 (w)

(lājǐn) to pull tight; tensioning

拉美 (w)

(lāměi) Latin America; abbr. for 拉丁美洲

拉美西斯 (w)

(lāměixīsī) Rameses (name of pharaoh)

拉肚子 (w)

(lādùzi) diarrhea

拉脱维亚 (w)

(lātuōwéiyà) Latvia

拉兹莫夫斯基 (w)

(lāzīmòfūsījī) Razumovsky (name); Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat

拉茶 (w)

(lāchá) teh tarik, an Indian-style tea with milk (GM)

拉莫斯 (w)

(lāmòsī) (Philippine President Fidel) Ramos

拉菲草 (w)

(lāfēicǎo) raffia (loanword)

拉盖尔 (w)

(lāgàiěr) Laguerre (name); Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician

拉萨 (w)

(lāsà) Lhasa, capital city of Tibet autonomous region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区

拉萨市 (w)

(lāsàshì) Lhasa, Tibetan: Lha sa grong khyer, capital of Tibet autonomous region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区

拉萨条约 (w)

(lāsàtiáoyuē) Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet

拉话 (w)

(lāhuà) to chat

拉贝 (w)

(lābèi) (John) Rabe (German eyewitness to Nanjing massacre)

拉贾斯坦邦 (w)

(lājiǎsītǎnbāng) Rajasthan (state in India)

拉赫曼尼诺夫 (w)

(lāhèmànnínuòfū) Rachmaninoff; Rachmaninov

拉辛 (w)

(lāxīn) Jean Racine (French dramatist)

拉达克 (w)

(lādákè) Ladakh, the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir in northwest India, adjacent to Kashmir and Tibet, know as "Little Tibet"

拉那烈 (w)

(lānàliè) (Prince) Ranariddh (son of King Sihanouk of Cambodia)

拉里 (w)

(lālǐ) lari (currency of Georgia)

拉钩 (w)

(lāgōu) pinky swear

拉锯 (w)

(lājù) a two-man saw; fig. to-and-fro between two sides

拉锯战 (w)

(lājùzhàn) to-and-fro tussle; closely-fought contest

拉锁 (w)

(lāsuǒ) zipper

拉链 (w)

(lāliàn) zipper

拉长 (w)

(lācháng) to lengthen; to pull sth out longer

拉长脸 (w)

(lāchángliǎn) to pull a long face; to scowl

拉开 (w)

(lākāi) to pull open; to pull apart; to space out; to increase

拉关系 (w)

(lāguānxì) to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit; to suck up to sb

拉杂 (w)

(lāzá) disorganized; rambling; incoherent

拉青格 (w)

(lāqīnggé) Ratzinger (German surname of Pope Benedict XVI)

拉顿 (w)

(lādùn) Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster

拉马特甘 (w)

(lāmǎtègān) Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University

拉高 (w)

(lāgāo) to pull up

拉鲁 (w)

(lālǔ) Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name; Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician; Lhalu suburb of Lhasa

拉鲁湿地国家自然保护区 (w)

(lālǔshīdìguójiāzìránbǎohùqū) Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa

拉面 (w)

(lāmiàn) pulled noodles; ramen

拉齐奥 (w)

(lāqíào) Lazio (region in Italy)