luj

See also: lüj, lůj, and ļuj

Albanian

Verb

luj

  1. Dialectal form of luaj

Lombard

Alternative forms
  • lüj, lui, lüi (Western orthographies)
  • löj, löi (Eastern orthographies)

Etymology

From Latin iūlius. Compare Italian luglio, Piedmontese luj, Ligurian lùggio, Emilian lój, Spanish julio, Friulian Lui.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [lyj] (Western)
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [løj] (Eastern)
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [lyʎ] (Poschiavo)

Proper noun

luj m

  1. July

Polish

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Middle High German loi, loie (“lazy”). If so, cognate to Middle Dutch lui.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /luj/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -uj
  • Syllabification: luj

Noun

luj m pers

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) bum, scrunge, a scruffy man
    Synonyms: lump, menel, żul
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) hoodlum, rogue
    Synonyms: łobuz, opryszek, zakapior
  3. (gay slang, derogatory) heterosexual man who is the object of desire of a homosexual (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension
Declension of luj
singular plural
nominative luj luje
genitive luja lujów
dative lujowi lujom
accusative luja lujów
instrumental lujem lujami
locative luju lujach
vocative luju luje

Noun

luj m animal

  1. (school slang) F (falling grade)
    Synonyms: gała, lufa, pała

Declension
Declension of luj
singular plural
nominative luj luje
genitive luja lujów
dative lujowi lujom
accusative luja luje
instrumental lujem lujami
locative luju lujach
vocative luju luje

Derived terms
adjective
  • lujowaty

References
  1. Adam Fałowski (2022) Słownik etymologiczny polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN

Further reading
  • luj in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian lune.[1]

Noun

luj f (plural luja)

  1. Monday

See also

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “lúja”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 170

Further reading
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e luj, -a- ʒ. -a, -en- = i lùj/a¹#, -a- ʒ. -e, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 228

White Hmong

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lu˥˧/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong *ljɛŋᴬ (“to measure (rice)”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 量 (MC ljang|ljangH, “quantity; to measure”).[1]

Verb

luj

  1. to measure, weigh

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 騾／骡 (luó, “mule”).[2]

Noun

luj

  1. used in luj txwv (“mule”)

Noun

luj

  1. used in compounds to mean heel, elbow
Derived terms
  • luj khau (“heel of a shoe”)
  • luj taws (“heel of the foot”)
  • luj tshib (“elbow”)

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 118-9.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 17-8; 276.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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