lugal

English

Lugal-dalu ruled the ancient Sumerian city of Adab around 2500 B.C.E.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒈗 (lugal, “king, lord”).

Noun

lugal (plural lugals)

1. (historical) A ruler of a city-state in ancient Sumer.
   • 2011, Judith Coffin, Robert Stacey, Joshua Cole, Carol Symes, Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture‎^[1], seventeenth edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 16:

     Evidence shows that competition among Sumerian city-states reached a new level around 2500 B.C.E., as ambitious lugals vied to magnify themselves and their kingdoms.

Further reading

• lugal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese logar, lugar, from Latin locālis (“local”), from locus (“place”), from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luˈɡal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: lu‧gal

Noun

lugal m (plural lugaris)

1. place, location

   Synonym: términu

   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 3: Radós:

     Pero, ademais, esta lengua materna sirvi de meiu de cumunicación entre paisanus do mismu lugal o de cualquera dos tres, […]

     But, furthermore, this mother tongue serves as a communication medium between countrymen from the same place or each of the three, […]

2. village

   Synonym: pueblu

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 191

Sumerian

Romanization

lugal

1. romanization of 𒈗 (lugal)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /luˈɡal/ [lʊˈɣal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: lu‧gal

Noun

lugál (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜄᜎ᜔) (uncommon, now chiefly dialectal)

1. alternative form of lugar