Lula

19th-century variant of Lulu, nickname of Louisa and Lucy. In rare cases, shortened from Tallulah.

Lula

1. A female given name.
   • 2015, Toni Morrison, God Help the Child, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 11:

     But Lula Ann Bridewell is no longer available and she was never a woman. Lula Ann was a sixteen-year-old-me who dropped that dumb countrified name as soon as I left high school. I was Ann Bride for two years until I interviewed for a sales job at Sylvia, Inc., and, on a hunch, shortened my name to Bride, with nothing anybody needs to say before or after that memorable syllable.

2. Ellipsis of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

• Allu, Aull

First attested as in de Lula in 1706. Derived from Old Frisian Lula (a surname).

• IPA^(key): /ˈly.laː/
• Hyphenation: Lu‧la

Lula n

1. a hamlet in Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Lula

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Lula: Luluson
• daughter of Lula: Luludóttir

From lula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.la/
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: Lu‧la
• Homophone: lula

Lula m pers

1. a male surname

Lula f

1. a female surname

• “Lula”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

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• Rhymes: -ulɐ
• Homophone: lula
• Hyphenation: Lu‧la

Lula m (plural Lulas)

1. (Northeast Brazil) a diminutive of the male given names Luís or Luiz
   1. (Brazilian politics) ellipsis of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

• IPA^(key): /ˈlula/ [ˈlu.la]
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: Lu‧la

Lula f

1. a diminutive of the female given names Lourdes or María de Lourdes