lub

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lub"

Translingual

Symbol

lub

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Luba-Katanga.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Luba-Katanga terms

Old Polish

Etymology

Clipping of lubo. First attested in c. 1487.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /lʲu(ː)p/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /lʲup/

Conjunction

lub

1. (attested in Masovia) or, that is, and/or

   Synonym: lubo

   • [c. 1487], Adam Wolff, editor, Rękopiśmienne ekscerpty Adama Wolffa pochodzące z mazowieckich ksiąg sądowych, Grójec, page 4 a:

     Jest w Golianach Joh[annes] Gysthor lub Gysthorek

     [Jest w Golianach Joh[annes] Gisztor lub Gisztorek]

Descendants

• Polish: lub
• Silesian: lub

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “2. lub”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Slovak

Noun

lub m inan

1. sieve frame

References

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “lub”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈlup/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈlup/

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• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: lub
• Homophone: lup

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish lub. By surface analysis, clipping of lubo.

Conjunction

lub

1. (sometimes repeated) or, and/or

   Synonyms: abo, albo, bądź, czy

Alternative forms

• leb, lubo (Middle Polish)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lub is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 255 times in scientific texts, 42 times in news, 80 times in essays, 45 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 433 times, making it the 223rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lub

1. second-person singular imperative of lubić

Further reading

• lub in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lub in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “lub, lubo, leb”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “lub”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “lub”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “lub”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 768

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish lub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlup/
• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: lub

Conjunction

lub

1. (sometimes repeated) or, and/or

   Synonym: abo

Further reading

• lub in dykcjonorz.eu
• lub in silling.org

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *ʔlɛŋᴬ (“classifier for bowls and houses”), borrowed from Chinese 庵 (ān, “thatched hut”). Cognate with Proto-Mien *ʔnɛɔmᴬ (“id”).

Other proposals consider the word as borrowed from Proto-Tai *lɯ:kᴰ (“child (offspring)”). If that case, then cognate with Thai ลูก (lûuk), Northern Thai ᩃᩪᨠ, Lao ລູກ (lūk), Lü ᦟᦴᧅ (luuk), Tai Dam ꪩꪴꪀ, Shan လုၵ်ႈ (lūk), Tai Nüa ᥘᥧᥐ (luk), Khamti လုက်ႉ, Phake လုက် (luk), Ahom 𑜎𑜤𑜀𑜫 (luk), Bouyei leg, Zhuang lwg. Within Kra-Dai, compare Sui laag (“son”), Proto-Hlai *hlɯːk (“child; offspring”) (whence ɗɯːʔ⁷~ɬɯːʔ⁷~ɬɯːk⁷~ɬɯaʔ⁷ across the different lects) and Proto-Be *ləːkᴰ² (“child; offspring”) (whence lɛk⁸~lək⁸ across the different lects). Compare also Siraya alak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu˥/

Classifier

lub

1. classifier for objects characterized by bulk or roundness:
   1. (classifier) ball; round object.
   2. (classifier) building.
   3. (classifier) abstract idea.

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 118.