lu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lu"

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 (“route”)

Noun

lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

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

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Aiwoo

Noun

lu

  1. life

References

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

Basque

Noun

lu

  1. pussy, vagina

Danish

Verb

lu

  1. imperative of lue

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ly/

Verb

lu m (feminine singular 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

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronoun

lu (plural li)

  1. he, him, she, her, it or that
    Me ne konocas se lu es viro o muliero.
    I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman.

Derived terms

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

See also

Interlingue

Article

lu

  1. the

Usage notes

Used as a definite article to form abstract concepts: lu bon the good.

Mandarin

Romanization

lu (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 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 lǘ.
  6. Nonstandard spelling of lǚ.
  7. Nonstandard spelling of lǜ.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

Pronoun

lu

  1. Alternative form of 'u

Novial

Pronoun

lu (plural lus, accusative lum)

  1. it

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Reduced form of Latin lupus.

Noun

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

  1. wolf

Sicilian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.

Article

lu m sg (plural li)

  1. (definite article) the
Sicilian articles
Masculine Feminine
indefinite singular un, nu na
definite singular lu, û la, â
definite plural li, î li, î

See also

Tocharian A

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *luhxeh₂, through a Proto-Tocharian *luwā-. Compare Tocharian B luwo. May be distantly related to Old Church Slavonic lovъ (lovŭ, “chase”), Serbo-Croatian lõv (“chase; game animal”); compare also Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

Noun

lu

  1. animal

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

lu

  1. bone

Inflection

Inflection of lu
nominative sing. lu
genitive sing. lun
partitive sing. lud
partitive plur. luid
singular plural
nominative lu lud
accusative lun lud
genitive lun luiden
partitive lud luid
essive-instructive lun luin
translative luks luikš
inessive lus luiš
elative luspäi luišpäi
illative ? luihe
adessive lul luil
ablative lulpäi luilpäi
allative lule luile
abessive luta luita
comitative lunke luidenke
prolative ludme luidme
approximative I lunno luidenno
approximative II lunnoks luidennoks
egressive lunnopäi luidennopäi
terminative I ? luihesai
terminative II lulesai luilesai
terminative III lussai —
additive I ? luihepäi
additive II lulepäi luilepäi

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], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) lu

  1. big vase used to contain water

Zazaki

Alternative forms

Noun

lu ?

  1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)
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