# luke
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English leuȝke, leuk, leuke, lewk, lewke, louk, luk, luke, probably from Old English *hlēoc beside hlēow- (whence lew); compare rēoc and rēow, slēac and un-slēaw, etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l(j)uːk/, /lɪu̯k/
* Rhymes: -uːk

### Adjective

luke (not comparable)
* lukewarm
** 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss?
** 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:
    Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill, cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself in the luke water, and turned from his companions; but he died as soon as he touched the water, and the warmness was turned into death to him […]
** 1946, Arthur Kober, That Man is Here Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent, Random House:Next thing, I have a confrince with Barry and I tells him, 'Frankly, kid, it don't look any too hot over there at Regal. In fack, very luke.'
** 1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106:Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]
** 2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now:Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.

#### Derived terms

* lukecold
* lukewarm

### References

* ↑ “leuk, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Anagrams

* leku, leuk-, Leuk

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luke/ [lu.ke]
* Rhymes: -uke
* Hyphenation: lu‧ke

### Verb

luke
* Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.

#### Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Related to the verb lukke

### Noun

luke f or m (definite singular luka or luken, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)
* a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
* a hatch
* a window (e.g. ticket window)
* a gap, space, slot, opening

#### Derived terms

* bakluke
* takluke

### References

* “luke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Related to the verb lukke

### Noun

luke f (definite singular luka, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)
* a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
* a hatch
* a window (e.g. ticket window)
* a gap, space, slot, opening

#### Derived terms

* bakluke
* likluke
* takluke

### References

* “luke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Scots
### Noun

luke (plural lukes)
* Alternative form of luik

### Verb

luke (third-person singular simple present lukes, present participle lukin, simple past lukit, past participle lukit)
* Alternative form of luik

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

luke (Cyrillic spelling луке)
* inflection of luka:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Slovene
### Noun

luke
* inflection of luka:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative plural