lu

lu

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Translingual

Symbol

lu

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luba-Katanga.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lu (uncountable)

  1. Archaic form of loo (“card game”).

Verb

lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)

  1. Archaic form of loo (“beat at card game”).

Etymology 2

A romanization of Chinese 路 (lù, “route”)

Noun

lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

  1. (historical) Synonym of route or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.

References

  • “lu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • UL, Ul, ul

Äiwoo

Noun

lu

  1. life

References

  • Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille. Compare Spanish lo.

Pronoun

lu, la f, lo n

  1. Third-person singular direct object; him, it

Bakung

Etymology

From Proto-Kenyah *lu, from Proto-North Sarawak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (“pestle”).

Noun

lu

  1. pestle for pounding rice

References

  • Smith, A. (2017) The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/, [lu]

Noun

lu inan

  1. pussy, vagina

Declension

Betawi

Alternative forms

  • elu (extended form)
  • eluh (extended form)
  • lo
  • luh

Etymology

from Hokkien 汝 (lú).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/
  • IPA(key): /luh/
  • IPA(key): /əˈlu/ (extended form)
  • IPA(key): /əˈluh/ (extended form)
  • Hyphenation: lu

Pronoun

lu

  1. you (personal pronoun)
  2. you (direct object of a verb)
  3. you (object of a preposition)
  4. you (indirect object of a verb)
  5. your (belonging to me)

Usage notes

  • Used mainly in a common situation, especially between friends or by someone older in terms of speaking to a younger person. As for the usage by a younger person speaking with an older person, there is no agreement whether it is appropriate to do so or not: some would regard it as inappropriate, some other would not. Grijns (1991) noted that some Batavians use this pronoun when speaking to God.

Synonyms

  • énté

References

  • Grijns, C.D. (1991) Jakarta Malay, volume 2, Leiden: KITLV Press, page 122.

Chinese

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish luu, from Proto-Brythonic *llʉɣ, from Proto-Celtic *slougos.

Noun

lu m (plural luyow)

  1. army, troop, fleet

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian lo (“him”), il (“the”) and French le (“the, him”).

Article

lu

  1. Archaic form of u.

Pronoun

lu

  1. Archaic form of u.

References

  • “lu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
  • “u, lu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Danish

Verb

lu

  1. imperative of lue

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ly/
  • Homophones: lue, lues, lus, lut, lût

Participle

lu (feminine lue, masculine plural lus, feminine plural lues)

  1. past participle of lire

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum. Compare Italian lo.

Pronoun

lu (third person masculine direct object)

  1. him

Related terms

  • lui
  • i

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lûː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [lûː]

Ideophone

lû

  1. swinging motion

Ido

Etymology

Back-formation from ilu (“he, him”), elu (“she, her”) and olu (“it”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/

Pronoun

lu (plural li)

  1. Third-person singular pronoun for referents of any gender; he/him, she/her, it or that

Usage notes

Lu is widely used in Ido, and not exclusively when a gendered possessive determiner is inappropriate, but also in order to avoid repetition depending on the user's preferences.

Derived terms

  • li (“they, them”)
  • lua

Related terms

  • ilu (“he, him”) (masculine)
  • elu (“she, her”) (feminine)
  • olu (“it”) (neuter)

See also

Indonesian

Etymology

From Betawi Udik lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lo.

Pronoun

lu

  1. (chiefly Jakarta, slang) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

  • anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • coen (slang, East Java)
  • ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • kamu (intimate)
  • ko, kowe (informal, Java)
  • kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
  • lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Iranun

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luheq.

Noun

lu

  1. tear

Japanese

Romanization

lu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of る゚
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ル゚

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese လှူ (hlu).

Verb

lu

  1. to offer
  2. to donate

References

  • Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[1], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Linngithigh

Pronoun

lu

  1. he/she/it (third-person singular nominative pronoun)

See also

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/
  • Rhymes: -u

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hokkien 汝 (lú).

Pronoun

lu (Jawi spelling لو)

  1. you
    Synonyms: kamu, engkau, kau, awak, anda, hang
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

Clipping of dulu.

Adverb

lu (Jawi spelling لو)

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of dulu.

Further reading

  • “lu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

lu (lu5／lu0, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氌／氇

lu

  1. Nonstandard spelling of lū.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of lú.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of lǔ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of lù.
  5. Nonstandard spelling of lǖ.
  6. Nonstandard spelling of lǘ.
  7. Nonstandard spelling of lǚ.
  8. Nonstandard spelling of lǜ.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Muong

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *m-luː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *bluuʔ.

A great number of Muong lects, as well as Vietnamese, had replaced this native etymology with Sinitic 腿 (tuǐ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu¹/

Noun

lu

  1. (Mường Bi) thigh
    Synonym: tùi

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/

Pronoun

lu

  1. Alternative form of 'u

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lu m

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of lur (“lur, trumpet”)

References

  • Ivar Aasen (1850) “Lu”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Old French

Alternative forms

  • lou, leu

Etymology

Reduced form of Latin lupus.

Noun

lu oblique singular, m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)

  1. wolf

Sassarese

Alternative forms

  • l' (apocopic, before a vowel sound)
  • -llu (pronoun, enclitic)
  • -ru (pronoun, enclitic)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *(il)lu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/, (after a vowel) /ru/

Article

lu m sg (plural li, feminine la)

  1. the (masculine singular)

Usage notes

  • Becomes l' before a vowel.

Pronoun

lu m (plural li, feminine la)

  1. (followed by chi) that
  2. him (accusative)
    Lu cunnosci? ― Do you know him?
  3. it (accusative)
    Abà ti lu diggu ― Now I'll tell you (literally, “Now I tell it to you”)

References

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Sicilian

Etymology 1

From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.

Alternative forms

  • u

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/ (stressed)
  • IPA(key): /lu/ (unstressed)

Article

lu m sg (f la, plural li)

  1. (masculine singular definite article) the
    Synonym: u
Usage notes
  • This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart u. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
  • Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
  • Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'. Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancinu (liquid) and ârancinu (illiquid).
Inflection

Etymology 2

From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.

Alternative forms

  • -lu (enclitic)
  • u (illiquid form)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu/ (stressed)
  • IPA(key): /lu/ (unstressed)

Pronoun

lu m sg (plural li, female la)

  1. (accusative) him
    Synonym: u
    Lu canusci? ― Do you know him?
  2. (accusative) it, this or that thing
    Synonym: u
    Quannu ti lu desi. ― When I gave it to you.
Usage notes
  • This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
  • Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
  • Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'.

Sumerian

Romanization

lu

  1. Romanization of 𒇻 (lu)

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *luwā-, from Proto-Indo-European *luh₂eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“to seize, gain”). Compare Tocharian B luwo. Related to Old Church Slavonic ловъ (lovŭ, “hunt”), Serbo-Croatian lȏv (“chase; game animal”); compare also Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”).

Noun

lu

  1. animal

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *luu, from Proto-Uralic *luwe.

Noun

lu

  1. bone

Inflection

Derived terms

  • hambazlu
  • kül'glu
  • melalu
  • rindazlu
  • ristlu

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Etymology

Compare Khmer លូ (luu, “large jar”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lu˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [lʊw˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [lʊw˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cái) lu

  1. big vase used to contain water

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /lɨː/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /liː/

Noun

lu

  1. Soft mutation of llu.

Mutation

Zazaki

Alternative forms

  • lû

Noun

lu

  1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu˧/

Noun

lu

  1. head

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 42

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