luth

French

luth (plural luths)

1. The leatherback (turtle).

• “luth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Hult

Inherited from Middle French lut, from Old French leüt, leüz, probably borrowed from Old Occitan laüt or laütz, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”); possibly through the intermediate of Old Spanish alod, alaut, laúd.

• IPA^(key): /lyt/

• Audio; “le luth”:

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• Homophones: luths, lut, luts, lutte, luttent, luttes

luth m (plural luths)

1. lute, a stringed instrument

• → Persian: لوت (lut)

• “luth”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French luth.

luth n (plural luthuri)

1. lute

Cognate with Shilluk ludh.

luth

1. lungfish

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[1], 2005