lu

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

lu (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of loo (“card game”).

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”).

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

lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

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

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

• UL, Ul, ul

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• (Myanmar) /lu˧/
• (Lianghe)
• (Longchuan)
• (Luxi)
• (Xiandao)

lu

1. tiger, leopard

lu

1. life

• 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.

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

lu, la f, lo n

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

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

lu

1. pestle for pounding rice

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

Unknown. Potentially compare Iberian lu (“deep”)

• IPA^(key): /lu/,

lu inan

1. pussy, vagina

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

Borrowed from Hokkien 汝 (lú, “you”).

• IPA^(key): /lu/

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• IPA^(key): /luh/
• IPA^(key): /əˈlu/ (extended form)

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

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)

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.

• énté

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

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

lu m (plural luyow)

1. army, troop, fleet

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

lu

1. archaic form of u

lu

1. archaic form of u

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

lu

1. imperative of lue

• IPA^(key): /ly/

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• Homophones: lue, lues, lus, lut, lût

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

1. past participle of lire

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

lu (third person masculine direct object)

1. him

• lui
• i

• IPA^(key): /lûː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

lû

1. swinging motion

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Unknown. Possibly compare Basque lu (“vagina”)

lu

1. deep

   tekeŕ lu keś ir

   A deep votive action

• Villamor, Fernando (2020) A basic dictionary and grammar of the Iberian language

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

• IPA^(key): /lu/

lu (plural li)

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

   Me ne savas ka lu es viro o muliero.

   I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman.

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.

• li (“they, them”)
• lua

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

Personal pronouns in Ido

		singular			plural
		nominative	possessive		nominative	possessive
			singular	plural		singular	plural
first person		me	mea	mei	ni	nia	nii
second person	formal	vu	vua	vui	vi	via	vii
	familiar	tu	tua	tui
third person	masculine	ilu, il	ilua	ilui	ili	ilia	ilii
	feminine	elu, el	elua	elui	eli	elia	elii
	neuter	olu, ol	olua	olui	oli	olia	olii
	common	lu	lua	lui	li	lia	lii
	reflexive	su	sua	sui	su	sua	sui
indefinite		onu, on	onua	onui	onu, on	onua	onui

• The possessive plurals are seldom used.
• The shortened forms are preferred.
• The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: lu

lu

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

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)

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luheq.

lu

1. tear

lu

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

Borrowed from Burmese လှူ (hlu).

lu

1. to offer
2. to donate

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *si-ida, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ida. Compare Kapampangan la.

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/
• Hyphenation: í‧lu

lu

1. they (third person plural)

   Synonym: (preposed) ilu

lu

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

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *law, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *low.

lu

1. farm, field

   Lu ca ina thlu pa.

   He tills the field for me.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu/
• Rhymes: -u

Borrowed from Hokkien 汝 (lú).

lu (Jawi spelling لو)

1. (Singapore, colloquial) you

   Synonyms: kamu, engkau, kau, awak, anda, hang

Clipping of dulu.

lu (Jawi spelling لو)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of dulu

   Aku gerak lu.

   I'm going first.

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

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

• 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.

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).

• IPA^(key): /lu¹/

lu

1. (Mường Bi) thigh

   Synonym: tùi

• IPA^(key): /lu/

lu

1. alternative form of 'u

lu m

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

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

• lou, leu

Reduced form of Latin lupus.

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

1. wolf

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

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

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

lu m sg (plural li, feminine la)

1. the (masculine singular)

• Becomes l' before a vowel.

lu m (plural li, feminine la)

1. (followed by chi) that

   Di curori vi ni so umbè. Ca è lu chi tu priferi?

   There are lots of colors. Which one do you prefer?

   (literally, “Of colors there are a lot. Which one is that which you prefer?”)

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”)

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

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

• u

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

lu m sg (f la, plural li)

1. (masculine singular definite article) the

   Synonym: u

• 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).

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

• -lu (enclitic)
• u (illiquid form)

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

lu m sg (masculine and feminine plural li, feminine 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.

• 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'.

lu

1. romanization of 𒇻 (lu)

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”).

lu

1. animal

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

lu

1. bone

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

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Compare Khmer លូ (luu, “large jar”).

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(classifier cái) lu

1. big vase used to contain water

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

lu

1. soft mutation of llu

• lû

lu

1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)

• IPA^(key): /lu˧/

lu

1. head

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