lu

See also Appendix:Variations of "lu"

English

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)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Asturian

Pronoun

lu, la f, lo n

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

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Basque

Noun

lu

1. pussy, vagina

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Danish

Verb

lu

1. imperative of lue

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ly/, X-SAMPA: /ly/

Verb

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

1. Past participle of lire

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Ido

Pronoun

lu

1. he, she, or it

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Lojban

Cmavo

lu

1. begins a quotation containing grammatically valid Lojban text

Usage notes

• A quotation, started with lu, is ended with li'u.

Related terms

• li'u

See also

• lo'u
• zoi

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Mandarin

Romanization

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 lǜ.
7. Nonstandard spelling of lǚ.
8. Nonstandard spelling of lǖ.

Usage notes

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

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Old French

Etymology

Reduced form of Latin lupus

Noun

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

1. wolf

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin illum, from ille.

Article

lu m (plural li)

1. (definite article) the

The Sicilian Definite Article
	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	lu, û	la, â
Plural	li, î	li, î

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Tocharian A

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *luh_xeh₂, through a Proto-Tocharian root *luwā-. Compare Tocharian B luwo. May be distantly related to Old Church Slavonic lovъ ("chase"), cf. Serbian lõv ("chase; game animal"); cf. also Greek λέων.

Noun

lu

1. animal