လု

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lṵ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lu. • ALA-LC: lu • BGN/PCGN: lu. • Okell: lú

Etymology 1

Verb

လု • (lu.)

  1. to take by force, rob, usurp, snatch
  2. to vie for, jostle to gain an advantage
Derived terms
  • ကုလားထိုင်လု (ku.la:htuinglu.)
  • စကားနိုင်လု (ca.ka:nuinglu.)
  • စကားရည်လုပွဲ (ca.ka:ranylu.pwai:)
  • စားခွက်လု (ca:hkwaklu.)
  • နယ်လု (nailu.)
  • ဗွေလု (bwelu.)
  • ဗိုလ်လုပွဲ (buillu.pwai:)
  • လင်လုဘက် (langlu.bhak)
  • လုယက် (lu.yak)
  • လုယက်မှု (lu.yakhmu.)
  • အနိုင်လု (a.nuinglu.)

Etymology 2

Particle

လု • (lu.)

  1. particle suffixed to verbs: nearly, about to
Derived terms
  • ခုလုခုလုဖြစ် (hku.lu.hku.lu.hprac)
  • ပုလု (pu.lu.)
  • ပုလုကွေးလွေး (pu.lu.kwe:lwe:)
  • လုနီးပါး (lu.ni:pa:)
  • လုမတတ် (lu.ma.tat)
  • သေလုနီးပါး (selu.ni:pa:)
  • သေလုမတတ် (selu.ma.tat)
  • သေလုမြောပါး (selu.mrau:pa:)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hokkien 汝 (lú, “you”). Doublet of နင် (nang).

Pronoun

လု • (lu.)

  1. (slang, colloquial) you (second person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)

Further reading

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