luh

See also: lùh, luħ, and łuh

English

Verb

luh

1. Pronunciation spelling of love, representing African-American Vernacular English.
   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 285:

     Muddah collapsed beneath me, laying flat on her stomach. I laid down halfway on top of her and pulled her close to me. "I luh you, Carmiesha," I said, slobber dripping from my mouth.

Cebuano

Etymology

From hala.

Interjection

luh

1. (text messaging) used as an expression of awe, surprise or disbelief.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlux]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Czech luh, from Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ.

Noun

luh m inan

1. (forestry) riparian forest

   Synonym: lužní les

2. (literary) mead, meadow, especially a wet meadow or flood-meadow

Declension

Declension of luh (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	luh	luhy
genitive	luhu	luhů
dative	luhu	luhům
accusative	luh	luhy
vocative	luhu	luhy
locative	luhu	luzích
instrumental	luhem	luhy

Related terms

• lužní

 

Etymology 2

Noun

luh m inan

1. (rare, archaic) Alternative form of louh

Declension

Declension of luh (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	luh	luhy
genitive	luhu	luhů
dative	luhu	luhům
accusative	luh	luhy
vocative	luhu	luhy
locative	luhu	luzích
instrumental	luhem	luhy

Further reading

• “luh”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “luh”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “luh”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Javanese

Romanization

luh

1. Romanization of ꦭꦸꦃ

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luheq, from Proto-Austronesian *luSeq.

Noun

luh

1. tear

Alternative forms

• lūh
• lĕh

Derived terms

• aluh
• aṅluh
• kapaluh
• kapiluh
• kapiṅluh
• lumuh

 

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦭꦸꦃ (luh) (inherited)
• >? Malay: peluh
  • > Indonesian: peluh (inherited)

Further reading

• "luh" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Sumerian

Romanization

luh

1. Romanization of 𒈛 (luḫ)