luj

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See also: lüj, lůj, and ļuj

Albanian

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Verb

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luj

  1. Dialectal form of luaj

Lombard

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin iūlius. Compare Italian luglio, Piedmontese luj, Ligurian lùggio, Emilian lój, Spanish julio, Friulian Lui.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [lyj] (Western)
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [løj] (Eastern)
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [lyʎ] (Poschiavo)

Proper noun

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luj m

  1. July

Polish

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Etymology

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Possibly borrowed from Middle High German loi, loie (lazy). If so, cognate to Middle Dutch lui.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /luj/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uj
  • Syllabification: luj

Noun

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luj m pers

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) bum, scrunge, a scruffy man
    Synonyms: lump, menel, żul
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) hoodlum, rogue
    Synonyms: łobuz, opryszek, zakapior
  3. (gay slang, derogatory) heterosexual man who is the object of desire of a homosexual (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension

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Noun

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luj m animal

  1. (school slang) F (falling grade)
    Synonyms: gała, lufa, pała

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjective

References

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  1. ^ Adam Fałowski (2022) “luj”, in Słownik etymologiczny polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN

Further reading

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  • luj in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romani

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Romanian lune.[1]

Noun

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luj f (plural luja)

  1. Monday

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “lúja”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 170

Further reading

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  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e luj, -a- ʒ. -a, -en- = i lùj/a¹#, -a- ʒ. -e, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 228

White Hmong

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Hmong *ljɛŋᴬ (to measure (rice)), borrowed from Middle Chinese (MC ljang|ljangH, “quantity; to measure”).[1]

Verb

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luj

  1. to measure, weigh

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Chinese (luó, “mule”).[2]

Noun

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luj

  1. used in luj txwv (mule)

Etymology 3

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.[2] Any relation to Chinese (, “used in compounds to denote rolling”)?”

Noun

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luj

  1. used in compounds to mean heel, elbow
Derived terms
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References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 118-9.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 17-8; 276.
  2. 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25