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- to pull
- to play (a bowed instrument)
- to drag
- to draw
- to chat
- (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- Latin
- (in former times) to press-gang
- to kidnap and force people into service
- pulling force
- (fig.) allure
- (materials testing) tensile strength
- (loanword) rally
Trad. 拉動
- to pull
- (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity)
- to motivate (people to do sth)
- to drag
- to pull
- to raise a child (through difficulties)
- to help
- to support
- to drag in
- to chat
- (northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver)
- to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)
Trad. 拉滿
- to max out; (of a feeling, atmosphere etc) to reach peak intensity
Trad. 拉環
- pull tab (on a drink can)
- strap handle (on a bus or train)
- ring-shaped door handle
- (of a donkey etc) to turn a millstone
- (fig.) to do laborious and monotonous work
Trad. 拉練
- (military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc)
- (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
- to drag along
- to haul
- (fig.) to procrastinate
- shilly-shallying
- sluggish
- (computing) drag and drop
- (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams
- (coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly)
Trad. 拉製
- drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched)
- to pull sb close to oneself
- (fig.) (typically followed by 距離|距离[ju4 li2]) to bridge (the distance between people) (i.e. to build a closer relationship)
Trad. 拉魯
- Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name
- Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician
- Lhalu suburb of Lhasa
- to add sb to one's blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc)
- abbr. for 拉到黑名單|拉到黑名单
Trad. 馬拉
- Marat (name)
- Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), Swiss scientist and physician
Trad. 烏拉
- leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4 la5 cao3], worn in northeastern China during winter
- Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge
- Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Trad. 拉下臉
- to look displeased
- to not be afraid of hurting sb's feelings
- to put aside one's pride
- Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), president of France 1995-2007
- to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit
- to suck up to sb
- Hillary (name)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
- (gaming) to draw attention or attacks from the enemy towards oneself
- (slang) (neologism) to court envy and resentment by flaunting one's wealth, travel photos or weight loss etc
- (loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)
- Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999
Trad. 拉包爾
- Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
Trad. 拉場子
- (of a performer) to put on a show at an outdoor venue (temple fair, marketplace etc)
- (fig.) to enhance sb's reputation
- to make a name for oneself
Trad. 阿拉爾
- Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
- Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God
Trad. 拉孜縣
- Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
- Flushing Chinatown, a predominantly Chinese and Korean neighborhood of Queens, New York City
- Faraday (name)
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
- La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian inventor and engineer
- Tesla, an American electric vehicle and clean energy company
Trad. 撒拉語
- Salar, language of Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
- La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
- Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker
- Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula