لوگ

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

لوگ • (log)

1. house
2. home

• گس (gis)

Inherited from Old Hindi لوگ (log), a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोक (loka). First attested in 1503 A.D. Doublet of لوک (lok).

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

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]‎, page 48:

     تیرا لوگ پردیس گیا ھے

     terā log pardes gayā hai

     Your man has gone abroad

• “لوگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “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