لوگ

Baluchi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *lōka. Cognate with Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫓𐫇𐫃 (lwg).

Noun

لوگ • (log)

  1. house
  2. home

See also

Urdu

FWOTD – 1 December 2023

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोक (loka).[1] Doublet of لوک (lok). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi لوگ (log).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

لوگ • (log) m (Hindi spelling लोग)

  1. (in the plural) people
  2. (by extension) folk; family
  3. (by extension) class, caste
  4. (women's speech, rustic) man, husband
    • 1868, پیارے لال آشوب دہلوی [Piyare Lal Ashoob Dehlvi], رُسُومِ ہِنْد [rusūm-i hind, The Traditions of Hindustan]‎[1], page 48:
      تیرا لوگ پردیس گیا ھے
      terā log pardes gayā hai
      Your man has gone abroad

Declension

Declension of لوگ
singular plural
direct لوگ (log) لوگ (log)
oblique لوگ (log) لوگوں (logõ)
vocative لوگ (log) (logo)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lōká¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 648
  2. ^ “لوگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • “لوگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “لوگ”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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