lauriat

Meaning

Noun

A special Chinese banquet with many courses and dishes .

Origin

Ultimately from Philippine Hokkien 鬧熱 ("bustling; noisy"), with semantic shift and slight phonological change due to a /l/~/ɾ/ allophony in Hokkien.

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