Lew

• Homophone: Lou

Lew (plural Lews)

1. A diminutive of the male given name Lewis.
   1. A male given name.
      • 2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History‎^[1], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

        When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.

2. A surname.

• Lewy

• Lou

• we'l

From lew.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛf/

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• Rhymes: -ɛf
• Syllabification: Lew
• Homophone: lew

Lew m animal

1. (astronomy) Leo (constellation)
2. (astrology) Leo (the zodiac sign)
3. a male given name, equivalent to English Leo
4. a male surname
5. a female surname

• Lew in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Lew in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Lew”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

• Liu
• Leow
• Lu

Borrowed from English Lew, from Hokkien 呂 / 吕 (Lū) and Mandarin 劉／刘 (Liú). Doublet of Lao, Liu, Lu, Lou, Loo, Luy, and Du.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlu/ [ˈlu]
• Rhymes: -u

Lew (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓ)

1. a surname from Hokkien or Mandarin