Sulu

From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”).[1][2] Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.lu/

Sulu

1. A province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago.
2. An archipelago in the southern part of the Philippines.
3. (historical) the Sultanate of Sulu.
4. (dated) Tausug language.

Sulu (plural Sulus or Sulu)

1. A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.
   • 1908, George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl, →ISBN, page 216:

     That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.

   • 1921, Ignacio Villamor, Felipe Buencamino, Census of the Philippine Islands - Volume II, page 950:

     At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.

   • 1970, Leigh R. Wright, The Origins of British Borneo, page 34:

     If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.

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

• ulus

From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”).[1][2] Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• Hyphenation: Su‧lu
• IPA^(key): /suˈlu/, [s̪ʊˈl̪u]

Sulú

1. Sulu (a province of the Philippines)
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in the Philippines)
3. (historical) Sultanate of Sulu

• Jolo

From English Sulu, from Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsulu/, [ˈs̠ulu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Syllabification^(key): Su‧lu

Sulu

1. Sulu (a province of the Philippines)
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in the Philippines)

• lusu

Borrowed from Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”).[1][2] Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /suˈlu/ [sʊˈlu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: Su‧lu

Sulú (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

1. (lalawigan/probinsiya ng ~) Sulu (a province of the Philippines)
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in the Philippines)
3. (historical) Sultanate of Sulu

• Jolo