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Entry

1  rahalahy

Part of speech

2  noun

Explanations in Malagasy

3  [1.1] Lehilahy iray ray sy iray reny amin' ny lehilahy iray hafa: Manana rahalahy efatra Rakoto 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.

Explanations in English

4  [1.2] A brother of a man; lit. when masculine. Comp. anadahy 5  [1.26#13] A man has rahalahy and an anabavy 6  [1.7] The brother of a man; cf. anadahy

Explanations in French

7  [1.54] Frère d'un frère 8  [1.8] Le frère d'un homme; cf. anadahy

Examples

9  [2.583#4] Miarahaba anao aho, ry rahalahy! 10  [2.69#224] Raha rahalahy tsy marina, tapaka ihany fa tsy namana, ka anaro; 11  [2.508#336] Misy koa anefa milaza fa nanana rahalahy natao hoe Andriankotofananina Andriamanelo.

Morphology

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

Derivatives

Relative verbs : 14 irahalahiana Names : 15 firahalahy, 16 firahalahiana, 17 mpirahalahy Adjectives : 18 mirahalahy

All compound words

19  anareo rahalahy salama 20  manao vain-drahalahy tsy mba maharary 21  rahalahy-mena-voamaso     22  rahalahin-teny

Vocabulary

23  Relationships: family

Analogs

24  anabavy, anadahy, rahavavy

Proverbs

25  Proverbs containing the word rahalahy

Article

26  Randzavola: rahalahy ao amin' ny Baiboly

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Updated on 2025/09/12