ilu

Abbreviation of English Ili'uun.

ilu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ili'uun.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ili'uun terms

• IPA^(key): /ɪluː/

ilu

1. (slang) Abbreviation of I love you.

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/ [ˈʔɪlʊ]
• Hyphenation: i‧lu

ílu m 

1. twig

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.lu/

ilu m (ilu)

1. alternative form of ilum

Related to Maori ruaki, Malay luah and Fijian lua

• IPA^(key): /ilu/

ilu

1. to vomit

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

From Proto-Finnic *ilo, further origin unknown. Cognates include Finnish ilo and Votic ilo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/, [ˈilu]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ilu
• Hyphenation: i‧lu

ilu (genitive ilu, partitive ilu)

1. beauty, splendor
   1. Aesthetically pleasing properties and features (appearance, color, shape etc.)

      Ilu on vaataja silmades. ― Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

      Synonym: kaunidus

   2. An ornament or decoration for sth/sb.

      Järv küla iluks, tüdruk maja iluks. (Estonian proverb)

      A lake decorates the village, a girl decorates the household.

      (literally, “A lake for the beauty of the village, a girl for the beauty of the house.”)

      Habe vanataadi ilu. (Estonian proverb)

      An old man's pride is his beard.

      (literally, “A beard is the old man's beauty.”)

      Synonym: ehe

2. (archaic, obsolete) joy, delight, happiness, glee

   Pill tuleb pika ilu peale. (Estonian proverb)

   What goes around, comes around.

   (literally, “The crying comes after a long period of joy.”)

   • 1981, Marie Under, “Porkuni preili”, in Paul Rummo, editor, Mu süda laulab [My Heart is Singing] (poetry), Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, page 260:

     Nad pidasid ilu, see oligi pulm, / need kaks sääl kaelastikku.

     They were having fun, this was a wedding, / those two yonder with hands around each other's necks.

Declension of ilu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ilu	ilud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ilu
genitive			ilude
partitive		ilu	ilusid
illative		illu ilusse	iludesse
inessive		ilus	iludes
elative		ilust	iludest
allative		ilule	iludele
adessive		ilul	iludel
ablative		ilult	iludelt
translative		iluks	iludeks
terminative		iluni	iludeni
essive		iluna	iludena
abessive		iluta	iludeta
comitative		iluga	iludega

• (visually pleasing properties): kaunidus
• (decoration for sth/sb): ehe

• ilu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Borrowed from Spanish hilo.

ilu

1. thread

• Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 62

• il

Borrowed from French il, from Vulgar Latin *illī, which is related to Classical Latin ille, +‎ -u (“denoting a person”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.lu/

ilu (in the plural ili)

1. he, him

• ili (“they, them”) (masculine)

• lu (“he, him, she, her, it, that”)
• elu (“she, her”) (feminine)
• olu (“it”) (neuter)

ilu

1. Latin spelling of ᐃᓗ (ilo)

• ile
• ilo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *si-ida, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ida. Compare Kapampangan ila, Tagal Murut ilo, Bukitan roh, Lotud ido.

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/ [ˈiː.lu]
• Hyphenation: í‧lu

ilu

1. they

   Synonym: (postpositive form) lu

   Synonyms: la, da, lu, do, di, de, to

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qizuR. Compare Ibaloi ilol, Javanese idu, Karao ilol, and Pangasinan ilol.

ilu

1. (anatomy) saliva

Originally an alternative form of lilu (“to him”), etc., pronominal forms of Arabic لَ (la, “to, for”), إلَى (ʔilā, “to, towards”). The adverbial construction exists in several Arabic dialects; compare e.g. North Levantine Arabic إلي يومين ما نمت (ʔili yawmayn ma nimt, “I haven’t slept in two days”). The postpositional use is derived therefrom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.lu/

ilu

1. Expresses the time that something has been going on; takes personal suffixes according to subject of the phrase and is followed by a specification of time; (equivalent to English) for; in

   Ili jumejn ma norqod.

   I haven’t slept in two days.

   (literally, “To me two days I don’t sleep.”)

   Xmun ilu seba’ xhur fil-ħabs.

   Simon has been in jail for seven months.

   (literally, “Simon to him seven months in jail.”)

• As above, the construction involves a verb in the present tense or a nominal sentence. If negated, the verb does not take the suffix -x.

ilu

1. ago

   Wasalna hawn jumejn ilu. ― We arrived here two days ago.

• In this use the form is always ilu regardless of the subject.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈiluː/

ilu

1. accusative/genitive singular of illu

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.lu/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ilu
• Syllabification: i‧lu

ilu

1. inflection of ile:
   1. masculine personal nominative/accusative/vocative
   2. genitive/dative/locative

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qizuR. Compare Ibaloi ilol, Javanese idu, Karao ilol, and Pangasinan ilol.

ilu

1. (anatomy) saliva

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/ [ˈi.lu]
• Rhymes: -ilu
• Syllabification: i‧lu

ilu f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) clipping of ilusión

ilu (needs class)

1. sky

• ùlú

ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ lú (“to intermingle, to mix, to come together”).

• IPA^(key): /ì.lú/

ìlú

1. (historical) city state; kingdom
2. town; city
3. country
4. establishment
5. (idiomatic, in the plural) chiefs (in their position as representatives of the people of the town)

   Synonyms: olóyè, ìjòyè, èèyàn

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ lù (“to beat, to hit”), literally “that which is beaten”.

• ùlù

• IPA^(key): /ì.lù/

ìlù

1. (music) percussion instruments (in particular) drums