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Baluchi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Iranian *lōka. Cognate with Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫓𐫇𐫃 (lwg).
Noun
لوگ • (log)
- house
- home
See also
Urdu
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोक (loka).[1] Doublet of لوک (lok). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi لوگ (log).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
لوگ • (log) m (Hindi spelling लोग)
- (in the plural) people
- (by extension) folk; family
- (by extension) class, caste
- (women's speech, rustic) man, husband
1868, پیارے لال آشوب دہلوی [Piyare Lal Ashoob Dehlvi], رُسُومِ ہِنْد [rusūm-i hind, The Traditions of Hindustan], page 48:تیرا لوگ پردیس گیا ھے- terā log pardes gayā hai
- Your man has gone abroad
Declension
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لوگوں (logō̃)
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لوگو (logō)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lōká¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 648
- ^ “لوگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
More information
- “لوگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لوگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “لوگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “لوگ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “لوگ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC