# luj
## Albanian
### Verb

luj
* Dialectal form of luaj

## Lombard
### Alternative forms

* lüj, lui, lüi (Western orthographies)
* löj, löi (Eastern orthographies)

### Etymology

From Latin iūlius. Compare Italian luglio, Piedmontese luj, Ligurian lùggio, Emilian lój, Spanish julio, Friulian Lui.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lyj/, [lyj] (Western)
* IPA: /lyj/, [løj] (Eastern)
* IPA: /lyj/, [lyʎ] (Poschiavo)

### Proper noun

luj m
* July

## Polish
### Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Middle High German loi, loie (“lazy”). If so, cognate to Middle Dutch lui.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluj/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uj
* Syllabification: luj

### Noun

luj m pers
* (colloquial, derogatory) bum, scrunge, a scruffy man
    Synonyms: lump, menel, żul
* (colloquial, derogatory) hoodlum, rogue
    Synonyms: łobuz, opryszek, zakapior
* (gay slang, derogatory) heterosexual man who is the object of desire of a homosexual (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

#### Declension
### Noun

luj m animal
* (school slang) F (falling grade)
    Synonyms: gała, lufa, pała

#### Derived terms

* lujowaty

### References

* ↑ Adam Fałowski (2022) “luj”, in Słownik etymologiczny polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN

### Further reading

* luj in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romani
### Alternative forms

* lùja (International Standard)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Romanian luni.

### Noun

luj f (plural luja)
* Monday

#### See also

* days of the week (appendix): kurko/purano kurko · luj/nevo kurko · martǐ · tetradǐ · źoj · paraśtuj · sàvato

### References

* ↑ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “lúja”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 170

### Further reading

* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e luj, -a- ʒ. -a, -en- = i lùj/a¹#, -a- ʒ. -e, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 228

## White Hmong
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lu˥˧/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong *ljɛŋᴬ (“to measure (rice)”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 量 (MC ljang|ljangH, “quantity; to measure”).

#### Verb

luj
* to measure, weigh

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 騾／骡 (luó, “mule”).

#### Noun

luj
* used in luj txwv (“mule”)

### Etymology 3

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given. Any relation to Chinese 轆／辘 (lù, “used in compounds to denote rolling”)?”

#### Noun

luj
* used in compounds to mean heel, elbow

##### Derived terms

* luj khau (“heel of a shoe”)
* luj taws (“heel of the foot”)
* luj tshib (“elbow”)

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 118-9.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 17-8; 276.
* 1 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25