Luke

See also: luke, lûke, and lǚkè

English

Alternative forms

• (Gospel of Luke): Luk., Lk (abbreviation), Luc. (rare abbreviation)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːk/
• Rhymes: -uːk
• Homophone: look (Scotland; some of Northern England)

Proper noun

Luke

1. A male given name from Latin Lucas, from Koine Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs) or a shortened form of Lucius.
   • 2005 Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 94:

     "Your parents like Cool Hand Luke, yes?" "I don't really know. Why?" "Why? Because they name you Luke." I was worried I might have to explain that my name wasn't all that uncommon, and, anyway, Claudia had named me after the alter ego of Hank Williams, Luke the Drifter.

2. Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Colossians 4:14:

     :

     Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

3. (biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.
4. An English patronymic surname, from given names, a variant of Luck.
5. An Irish patronymic surname, a later anglicization of Lúcás (Lucas).
6. A village in Čajniče, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
7. A village in Hadžići, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
8. A village in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. A village in Tartu, Estonia.
10. A village in Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia.
11. A village in Moravica district, Serbia.
12. A town in Maryland, United States; named for papermaker William Luke.

Derived terms

• Luke-Acts

Related terms

• (given name): Luca, Lucas, Luka

surnames

• Lock
• Locke
• Locket
• Lockett
• Lockey
• Lockie
• Lockitt
• Look
• Loukes
• Lucas
• Luck

• Luckes
• Luckett
• Luckman
• Lucks
• Lugg
• Lukeman
• Lukes
• McLucas
• McLuckie
• McLugash

Translations

given name

• Afrikaans: Lukas (af)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: לוקא‎ (Lūqā’)

  Syriac: ܠܘܩܐ‎ (Lūqā’)

• Armenian: Ղուկաս (hy) (Łukas)

  Old Armenian: Ղուկաս (Łukas)

• Basque: Lukas (eu)
• Breton: Lukaz (br) m
• Catalan: Lluc (ca)
• Cebuano: Lucas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盧克, 卢克 (Lúkè)

  Min Dong: 路加 (Lô-gă)

• Corsican: Lucca (co)
• Czech: Lukáš (cs)
• Danish: Lukas
• Dutch: Lukas (nl)
• Esperanto: Luko
• Estonian: Luukas
• Finnish: Luukas (fi)
• French: Luc (fr)
• Galician: Lucas (gl) m
• Georgian: ლუკა (luḳa)
• German: Lukas (de)
• Greek: Λουκάς (el) m (Loukás)
• Hawaiian: Luka
• Hungarian: Lukács (hu)
• Icelandic: Lúkas (is) m
• Ido: Lukas (io) m
• Indonesian: Lukas
• Irish: Lúcás (ga)

• Italian: Luca (it)
• Japanese: ルーク (ja) (Rūku)
• Latin: Lucas (la)
• Latvian: Lūkas m, Lūka (lv) m
• Limburgish: Lucas
• Lithuanian: Lukas
• Macedonian: Лу́ка m (Lúka)
• Maltese: Luqa (mt)
• Maori: Ruka (mi)
• Norwegian: Lukas (no)
• Occitan: Luc m
• Persian: لوکاس‎ (Lukâs)
• Polish: Łukasz (pl)
• Portuguese: Lucas (pt) m
• Romanian: Luca (ro)
• Russian: Лука́ (ru) m (Luká), Люк (ru) m (Ljuk) (transliteration)
• Scots: Luke
• Scottish Gaelic: Lùcas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лука

  Roman: Luka (sh)

• Slovak: Lukáš m
• Slovene: Luka (sl) m
• Spanish: Lucas (es)
• Swahili: Luka (sw)
• Swedish: Lukas (sv)
• Tagalog: Lucas (tl) m
• Tigrinya: ሉቃስ (luḳas)
• Waray-Waray: Lucas
• Welsh: Luc (cy) m
• West Frisian: Lukas
• Wolof: Luug
• Zealandic: Lucas

evangelist

• Afrikaans: Lukas (af)
• Arabic: لُوقَا‎ (lūqā)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: לוקא‎ (Lūqā’)

  Syriac: ܠܘܩܐ‎ (Lūqā’)

• Armenian: Ղուկաս (hy) (Łukas)

  Old Armenian: Ղուկաս (Łukas)

• Basque: Lukas (eu)
• Breton: Lukaz (br) m
• Catalan: Lluc (ca)
• Cebuano: Lucas
• Chinese:

  Min Dong: 路加 (Lô-gă)

• Corsican: Lucca (co)
• Czech: Lukáš (cs)
• Danish: Lukas
• Dutch: Lucas (nl)
• Estonian: Luukas
• Finnish: Luukas (fi)
• French: Luc (fr)
• Georgian: ლუკა (luḳa)
• German: Lukas (de)
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐍃 m (lukas)
• Greek: Λουκάς (el) m (Loukás)

  Ancient: Λουκᾶς m (Loukâs)

• Hawaiian: Luka
• Hungarian: Lukács (hu)
• Icelandic: Lúkas (is) m
• Ido: Lukas (io) m

• Italian: Luca (it)
• Japanese: ルーク (ja) (Rūku)
• Kazakh: Лұқа (Luqa)
• Korean: 루카 (Ruka)
• Latin: Lūcās (la) m
• Latvian: Lūkas m, Lūka (lv) m
• Limburgish: Lucas
• Lithuanian: Lukas m
• Macedonian: Лу́ка m (Lúka)
• Norwegian: Lukas (no)
• Persian: لوقا‎ (fa) (Luqâ)
• Polish: Ewangelia Łukasza
• Portuguese: Lucas (pt) m
• Romanian: Luca (ro) m
• Russian: Лука́ (ru) m (Luká)
• Scots: Luke
• Scottish Gaelic: Lùcas (gd) m
• Sinhalese: ධර්මදූත ලූක් තුමා (dharmadūta lūk tumā)
• Slovak: Lukáš m
• Slovene: Luka (sl) m
• Spanish: Lucas (es)
• Swahili: Luka (sw)
• Swedish: Lukas (sv)
• Tagalog: Lucas (tl) m
• Thai: ลูกา
• Tigrinya: ሉቃስ (luḳas)
• Vietnamese: Luca (Catholic), Lu-ca (Protestant)
• Waray-Waray: Lucas
• Welsh: Luc (cy) m
• West Frisian: Lukas
• Wolof: Luug
• Zealandic: Lucas

gospel of Luke

• Afrikaans: Lukas (af)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: כרוזותא דלוקא‎ (Kārōzūtā’ d'Lūqā’)

  Syriac: ܟܪܘܙܘܬܐ ܕܠܘܩܐ‎ (Kārōzūtā’ d'Lūqā’)

• Armenian: Ավետարան ըստ Ղուկասի (Avetaran əst Łukasi)
• Basque: Lukas (eu)
• Breton: Lukaz (br) m
• Burmese: ရှင်လုကာခရစ်ဝင် (hranglu.kahka.rac-wang)
• Catalan: Lluc (ca)
• Cebuano: Lucas
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 路加福音 (lou⁶ gaa¹ fuk¹ jam¹)

  Hakka: 路加福音 (Lu-kâ Fuk-yîm)

  Mandarin: 路加福音 (zh) (Lùjiā Fúyīn)

  Min Dong: 路加福音 (Lô-gă Hók Ĭng)

  Min Nan: 路加福音 (Lō͘-ka Hok-im)

• Corsican: Lucca (co)
• Czech: Lukáš (cs)
• Danish: Lukasevangeliet n (definitive form)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} Evangelie naar Lucas
• Estonian: Luuka m
• Finnish: Luukkaan evankeliumi
• French: ^{(please verify)} Évangile selon Luc (fr) , ^{(please verify)} Lc
• Georgian: ლუკას სახარება (luḳas saxareba)
• German: ^{(please verify)} das Evangelium nach Lukas , ^{(please verify)} Lk (de)
• Greek: κατά Λουκάν ευαγγέλιον n (katá Loukán evangélion)
• Hawaiian: Luka
• Hindi: लूका (hi) (lūkā)
• Hungarian: Lukács (hu)
• Icelandic: Lúkas (is) m
• Ido: Lukas (io) m
• Irish: Soiscéal Naofa Íosa Críost de réir Lúcáis m, Soiscéal Lúcáis m, Lúcás (ga) m
• Italian: Luca (it)
• Japanese: ルカによる福音書 (Ruka ni yoro fukuinsho)

• Kazakh: Лұқа (Luqa)
• Korean: 루카 복음서 (Ruka bogeumseo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لۆقا‎ (loqa)

• Latin: Lucas (la) m
• Latvian: Lūka (lv) m
• Limburgish: Lucas
• Lithuanian: Evangelija pagal Luką (lt) f
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} Евангелие според Лука n (Evangelie spored Luka)
• Maori: Ruka (mi)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} Evangeliet etter Lukas (no) , ^{(please verify)} Luk (no)
• Persian: لوقا‎ (fa) (luqâ)
• Polish: Ewangelia Łukasza
• Portuguese: Lucas (pt) m
• Romanian: Luca (ro) m
• Russian: Евангелие от Луки n (Jevangelije ot Luki)
• Scots: Luke
• Scottish Gaelic: Soisgeul Lùcais m
• Slovak: Lukáš m
• Slovene: Luka (sl) m
• Spanish: Lucas (es) m
• Swahili: Luka (sw)
• Swedish: Lukasevangeliet, Luk. (sv)
• Tagalog: Lucas (tl) m
• Thai: ลูกา
• Urdu: لوقا‎
• Vietnamese: Luca (Catholic), Lu-ca (Protestant)
• Waray-Waray: Lucas
• Welsh: Luc (cy) m, Yr Efengyl yn ôl Sant Luc f
• West Frisian: Lukas
• Zealandic: Lucas

villages in Bosnia and Serbia

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Луке

  Latin: Luke (sh)

village in North Macedonia

• Albanian: Lluka
• French: Louké

• Macedonian: Луке (Luke)
• Polish: Łuke

Anagrams

• leku, leuk-

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German

Etymology

From Middle Low German lūke. Cognate with Dutch luik (“hatch”) and more distantly with German Loch (“hole”) and Lücke (“gap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːkə/

• Audio

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Noun

Luke f (genitive Luke, plural Luken)

1. hatch (opening in the ceiling/floor of a room, in the deck of a ship, etc.)

   Die Luke zum Dachboden klemmt. ― The hatch to the attic is jammed.

   Der Kapitän öffnete die Luke und sah nach draußen. ― The captain opened the hatch and looked outside.

Derived terms

• Dachluke
• Schiffsluke

 

Further reading

• “Luke” in Duden online