لوگ

Baluchi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *lōka. Cognate with Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫓𐫇𐫃 (lwg).

Noun

لوگ • (log)

1. house
2. home

See also

• گس (gis)

Urdu

FWOTD – 1 December 2023

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोक (loka). Doublet of لوک (lok). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi لوگ (log).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /loːɡ/
• Rhymes: -oːɡ

Noun

لوگ • (log) m (Hindi spelling लोग)

1. (in the plural) people
2. (by extension) folk; family
3. (by extension) class, caste
4. (women's speech, rustic) man, husband
   • 1868, پیارے لال آشوب دہلوی [Piyare Lal Ashoob Dehlvi], رُسُومِ ہِنْد [rusūm-i hind, The Traditions of Hindustan]‎^[1], page 48:

     تیرا لوگ پردیس گیا ھے

     terā log pardes gayā hai

     Your man has gone abroad

Declension

Declension of لوگ
	singular	plural
direct	لوگ (log)	لوگ (log)
oblique	لوگ (log)	لوگوں (logō̃)
vocative	لوگ (log)	لوگو (logō)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• سَب لوْگ (“everyone”)

Further reading

More information

• “لوگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لوگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “لوگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “لوگ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “لوگ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC