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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• UL, Ul, ul

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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

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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^(key): /ly/

Verb

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

1. past participle of lire

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Friulian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

lu (third person masculine direct object)

1. him

Related terms

• lui
• i

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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”)

Related terms

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

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Interlingue

Article

lu

1. the

Usage notes

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

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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 (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.

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu/

Pronoun

lu

1. Alternative form of 'u

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Novial

Pronoun

lu (plural lus, accusative lum)

1. it

Related terms

• la
• lo
• le

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Old French

Alternative forms

• lou, leu

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

Article

lu m sg (plural li)

1. (definite article) the

Related terms

Sicilian articles
	Masculine	Feminine
indefinite singular	un, nu	na
definite singular	lu, û	la, â
definite plural	li, î	li, î

See also

• iddu

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Tocharian A

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *luh_xeh₂, 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

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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

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Zazaki

Noun

lu ?

1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)