lub

lub

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlup]
• Syllabification: lub

lub

1. (sometimes repeated) or, and/or
2. or, that is, i.e.

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “lub”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 53

Clipping of lubo.[1][2][3] First attested in c. 1487.

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

lub

1. or, that is, and/or

   Synonym: lubo

• Masurian: lub
• Polish: lub
• Silesian: lub

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “2. lub”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /lup/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈlup/

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

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

lub

1. (sometimes repeated) or, and/or

   Synonyms: abo, albo, bądź, czy

• leb, lubo (Middle Polish)

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.[1]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lub

1. second-person singular imperative of lubić

• 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 [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• 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

Inherited from Old Polish lub.

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

lub

1. (sometimes repeated) or, and/or

   Synonym: abo

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

From Proto-Hmong *ʔlɛŋᴬ (“classifier for bowls and houses”), borrowed from Chinese 庵 (ān, “thatched hut”). Cognate with Proto-Mien *ʔnɛɔmᴬ (“id”).[1]

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.

• IPA^(key): /lu˥/

lub

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

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