lu

lu (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of loo. (card game)

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)

A romanization of Chinese 路 (“route”)

lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

1. (historical) Synonym of route or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.

• UL, Ul, ul

lu

1. life

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille. Compare Spanish lo.

lu, la f, lo n

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

lu

1. pussy, vagina

lu

1. imperative of lue

• IPA^(key): /ly/

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

1. past participle of lire

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

lu (third person masculine direct object)

1. him

• lui
• i

Back-formation from ilu (“he, him”), elu (“she, her”) and olu (“it”).

• IPA^(key): /lu/

lu (plural li)

1. Third-person singular pronoun for referents of any gender; 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.

Lu is widely used in Ido, and not exclusively when a gendered possessive determiner is inappropriate, but also in order to avoid repetition depending on the user's preferences.

• li (“they, them”)
• lua

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

lu

1. the

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

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.

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /lu/

lu

1. Alternative form of 'u

lu (plural lus, accusative lum)

1. it

• la
• lo
• le

• lou, leu

Reduced form of Latin lupus.

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

1. wolf

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

lu m sg (plural li)

1. (definite article) the

• iddu

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).

lu

1. animal

From Proto-Finnic *luu, from Proto-Uralic *luwe.

lu

1. bone

• hambazlu
• kül'glu
• melalu
• rindazlu
• ristlu

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Compare Khmer លូ (luu, “large jar”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lʊw˧˧]

(classifier cái) lu

1. big vase used to contain water

• lû

lu ?

1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)