# low
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Low German leeg (“low, feeble, bad”), Danish lav (“low”), Icelandic lágur (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), North Frisian leeg, liig (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”). More at lie.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈloʊ/
* (Canada) IPA: /ˈloʊ/, [ˈloː]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: lo, Lowe
* Rhymes: -əʊ

#### Adjective

low (comparative lower, superlative lowest)
* Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
    Synonyms: nether, underslung
    Antonym: high
    standing on low ground in a low valley, ringed by low hills a low wall a low shelf
** 2012, Tyler Jo Smith, Dimitris Plantzos, A Companion to Greek Art, →ISBN:Narrative friezes in low relief were characteristic of Ionic architecture.
** Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
    the low countries
    Low German
** (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
    the pitch (or: the ball) was low
* Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
    Synonyms: short, small; see also Thesaurus:short
    Antonyms: tall; see also Thesaurus:tall
    a low bow a low tide the Mississippi is unusually low right now
** 1607 (edition of 1967), Edward Topsell, The history of four-footed beasts:
    It is a little low hearb […]
** 1795, James Cavanah Murphy, Travels in Portugal, page 15:The men are well-proportioned, rather low than tall, have a brown complexion, and reserved countenance.
** 1911(?), Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, page 13:
    "Now you mention her, I do remember the young lady," said Mrs. Grantly; "a dark girl, very low, and without much figure. She seemed to me to keep very much in the background."
** 2022 March 25, Rachel Ramirez and Hafsa Khalil, “Antarctic ice shelf nearly the size of Los Angeles collapsed as temperatures soared to 40 above normal”, in CNN‎:Just a month ago, data showed Antarctica would set a record this year for lowest sea-ice extent — the area of ocean covered by sea ice around the continent.
** Low-cut.
*** 1878, Mary Eliza Joy Haweis, The Art of Beauty, London: Chatto & Windus, page 83:Again, observe the unmeaningness of the low neck fashion. Our mothers wore low dresses and bare arms all day long; they knew if their shoulders and arms were beautiful they would look as well by daylight as by candlelight; […]
*** 1917, George Amos Dorsey, Young Low, page 195:Why do girls wear low dresses?
* Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
    low birth low rank the low officials of the bureaucracy low-quality fabric playing low tricks on them a person of low mind
    Now that was low even for you!
** 1971, Keystone Folklore Quarterly, volume 16, page 208:Therefore they must have been common in the 16th century also among the folk first of all not as a high festival food but rather as a low festival and Sunday food, if our experience proves accurate.
** 1720, The Delphick oracle, page 35:Low-Sunday, is the Sunday after Easter, and is so call'd, because it is a low Festival in Comparison of that Day whereon Christ arose from Death to Life again.
* Humble, meek, not haughty.
    Synonyms: modest, self-effacing; see also Thesaurus:humble
** 1829, Thomas Watson, Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects:God loves an humble soul. It is not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in.
* Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
    Synonyms: contemptuous, sneerful; see also Thesaurus:disdainful
    She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
** 1826, Ebenezer Erskine, The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Sermon VII, page 103:The humble soul has low thoughts of his own person; as David, 'I am a worm, and no man.'
* Being a nadir, a bottom.
    the low point in her career
** 2012, Faith Hartmann, Only a Fool Would Have Believed It in the First Place, →ISBN:Virginia, for example, reached such a low point in her junior year that she briefly considered suicide [...]
* Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
    Synonyms: sorrowful, unhappy; see also Thesaurus:sad
    low spirits
** 2016, Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor, page 33:As low as I felt, at least I didn't have Hunding's [miserable] job.
* Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
    Synonyms: anemic, frail; see also Thesaurus:weak
    a low pulse
    made (or: laid) low by sickness
** (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
* Dead. (Compare lay low.)
    Synonyms: departed, six feet under; see also Thesaurus:dead
** 1830, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Byron's Poems, page 511:And wilt thou weep when I am low?
** 1852, Alfred Tennyson, “Stanza III”, in Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 6:[L]et the mournful martial music blow; / The last great Englishman is low.
* Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
    Synonyms: reduced, devalued, low-level; see also Thesaurus:small, Thesaurus:worthless
    My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices. The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs. low cholesterol a low voltage wire a low number
** 1989, Bernard Smith, Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-speed Sailing, →ISBN:Unfortunately, low winds were the rule over the local waters and this craft was no better, if as good, as ordinary sailboats under such conditions.
** 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
** Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
    diets low in vitamin A
    made from low-carbon steel
** Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
    Synonyms: expended, used up; see also Thesaurus:depleted
    running low on cash
*** 2002, V.N. Bashkin, Robert W. Howarth, Modern Biogeochemistry, →ISBN, page 151:When silica is in low supply other classes of algae dominate the phytoplankton composition.
* (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
    low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
** 1870, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization, page 80:In the case of languages spoken by very low races, like the Puris and the Tasmanians, the difficulty of deciding such a point must be very great.
* (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
** 1881, Anthony Trollope, Dr. Wortle's School: A Novel, page 6:Among them there was none more low, more pious, more sincere, or more given to interference. To teach Mr. Worth his duty as a parish clergyman was evidently a necessity to such a bishop.
** 1889, Reginald Garton Wilberforce, Life of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and Winchester, page 152:[…] and give a judgment against not only Denison, but the Church's doctrine; and that, it having once been given, we shall not get it reversed; and that the Church of England will seem to be committed to Low doctrine, which […]
* (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
    the low northern latitudes
* (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
    Synonyms: low-pitched, deep, flat
    The note was too low for her to sing.
    Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
* Quiet; soft; not loud.
    Synonyms: low-toned, soft; see also Thesaurus:quiet
    They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
    Why would you want to play heavy metal at such a low volume?
** 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:Speak low if you speak love.
* (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
* (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
    a low card
* (now rare) Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple. [from 17th c.]
** 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 173:The Physicians ordered a low diet, and cooling ptisans in great abundance.
* (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
    low gear

##### Synonyms

* (despicable thing to do): Synonyms: immoral, abject, scummy, scurvy

##### Derived terms

* alow
* at a low ebb
* Bowland Forest Low
* bring low
* come low
* could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
* could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
* could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
* cutoff low
* down-low
* down low
* extremely low frequency
* fly low
* friends in low places
* hang low
* high and low
* High and Low Bishopside
* high-low
* highlow
* high-low split
* Holme Low
* I have low blood pressure
* infralow
* keep a low profile
* Kilburn High and Low
* lilly-low
* low-alcohol
* low-altitude
* low and behold
* low and slow
* Low Angerton
* low back
* low-background
* low-background lead
* low-background steel
* low back merger
* lowball
* low-beam
* low-bell
* lowbell
* Low Bentham
* lowbie
* low blow
* low-boiling
* low bono
* lowboy
* low breathing
* low bridge
* low-brow, lowbrow
* low-budget
* lowbush
* low C
* low-cal
* low-caloric
* low-calorie
* low camp
* low-carb
* low-carber
* low-ceilinged
* Low Church
* low-class
* low-code
* low comedy
* low-context
* low-context culture
* low context culture
* low-cost
* low-cost carrier
* low cost carrier
* Low Countries
* Lowcountry
* low-crowned seahorse
* lowcut
* low decile
* low definition
* low-density
* low-density lipoprotein
* low-doc loan
* low-dose CT scanning
* low-down, lowdown
* Low Dutch
* low Earth orbit
* low-effort syndrome
* low-emission
* low-end
* lower
* lowest of the low
* low exercise price option
* low explosive
* low fantasy
* low-fat
* Low Fell
* low-fidelity
* low fidelity
* low five
* low-floor
* low Fowler's
* low-functioning
* low-functioning autism
* low gear
* Low German
* Lowgill, Low Gill
* low grade
* low-grade
* low-grade fever
* low-growing
* low-hangers
* low hangers
* lowhanging
* low-hanging fruit
* low hanging fruit
* Low Harrogate
* low-hat
* low-hearted
* lowhearted
* low-heartedly
* low-heartedness
* low-heeled
* Low Hill
* low hundreds
* low-impact
* low-income
* low-info
* low-information
* low-IQ
* lowish
* low island
* Low Island
* low key
* lowkey
* low-key
* low-keyed
* low-keyness
* Low Kilburn
* lowland
* Lowlands
* Low Latin
* low-level
* low-level language
* lowlife, low-life, low life
* lowlight
* low line
* lowline
* lowling
* low-lived
* low loader
* lowly
* low-maintenance
* low-masking
* low mass
* low mass star
* low-melting
* low milling
* lowminded
* low-minded
* low-mindedly
* low-mindedness
* Low Moor
* low-necked
* lowness
* low-noise block downconverter
* low-octane
* low on the totem pole
* low-paid
* low-pass
* lowpass
* low-performance
* low-pitched
* low point
* low politics
* low post
* low post area
* low-power
* low-powered
* low-pressure
* low profile
* low-profile
* low-proof
* low-quality
* low relief
* low-rent
* low-res
* low-residency
* low-resolution
* Low Rhenish
* lowrider
* lowriding
* low-rise
* low rise
* low-risk
* low road
* Low Saxon
* low season
* low-seeded
* low side
* low-sided
* low side window
* low-skilled
* low-slope roof
* low-sock
* lowsome
* low-speed
* low-spirited
* low-spiritedness
* low spirits
* lowstand
* low-status
* low steel
* Low Street
* low-studded
* low-sulphur, low-sulfur
* low-sun
* Low Sunday
* low-support
* low surrogate
* low-T
* low-tar
* low tea
* low-tech
* low technology
* low-temperature
* low temperature flexibility
* low-tension
* lowth
* low-thoughted
* low tide
* Low Town
* Low Valleyfield
* low-value
* Lowveld
* low-velocity
* low water
* low-water mark
* low wine
* low-yield
* low yo-yo
* mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
* mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
* moral low ground
* nonlow
* Omaha high-low split
* on the down-low
* on the low
* overlow
* pisslow
* racism of low expectations
* semilow
* soft bigotry of low expectations
* sublow
* superlow
* Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby
* ultralow
* ultra low cost carrier
* ultra low frequency
* very low mass star

##### Related terms

* below

##### Translations
#### Noun

low (plural lows)
* A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
    You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
    Economic growth has hit a new low.
    Unemployment has reached a ten-year low.
** 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 38:During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.
** 2022 November 4, Fiona Harvey, “UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact”, in The Guardian‎:He also called for the US and China to rebuild their fractured relationship, which has plunged to new lows this year, but which Guterres said was “crucial” to climate action.
** The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
    Today's low was 32 °F.
* A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
    He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
* (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
    A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
* The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
    Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
* (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
* (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
    He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.

##### Derived terms

* Aleutian Low
* all-time low
* Arctic low
* cold-core low
* cold low
* Colorado low
* Genoa low
* heat low
* hybrid low
* Icelandic Low
* Kona low
* logic low
* polar low
* thermal low
* upper-level low
* wake low
* warm-core low

##### Translations
#### Adverb

low (comparative lower, superlative lowest)
* Close to the ground.
* Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
** c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:Can sing both high and low.
* With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
    to speak low
** 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Eleanore”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 31:[T]he amorous, odorous wind, / Breathes low between the sunset and the moon, […]
* Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
    He sold his wheat low.
* In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
** 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎:But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
* In a time approaching our own.
** 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:In that part of the world which was first inhabited, […] even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.
* (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
    The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

##### Derived terms

* high and low
* lay low
* lie low
* low-born, lowborn
* low-bred, lowbred
* low-cut
* low-enriched uranium
* low-flying
* low-hanging
* low-lying
* low-pitched
* low-priced
* low-ranking
* low-rider
* low-riding
* low-slung
* run low
* see-low

##### Translations
#### Verb

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
* (obsolete, transitive) To lower; to make low.
** 1654 (edition of 1762), Andrew Gray, The Works of [...] Andrew Gray [Edited by R. Trail and J. Stirling], page 112:
    I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […]
** 1661 (edition of 1885), Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: [...] Vanity of Dogmatizing, page 85:
    Now to use these as Hypotheseis, as himself in his Word, is pleas'd to low himself to our capacities, is allowable:
** 1790, Andrew Shirrefs, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 219:The merry fowks that were the ben, / By this time 'gan to low their strain
** 1807, James Ruickbie, The Way-side Cottager; [...] Miscellaneous Poems, page 178:She was quite free of bad inventions, / But was a bitch o high pretenfions, / For the grit folk o' a dimensions, / Ran for her breed; / Dog-officers may low their pensions, / Since Venie's dead, 'Twas past the art o'man to cure her, / […]
** 1899 May 6, Shetland News:Dat 'ill be somtin' ta hise an' low wi' a ütterly breeze.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English lough, from Old English hlōh, first and third person singular preterite of hliehhan (“to laugh”). More at laugh.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈloʊ/

#### Verb

low
* (obsolete) simple past of laugh.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English lowen (“to low”), from Old English hlōwan (“to low, bellow, roar”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call”).
Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“I call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“I shout, claim”). More at claim.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /loʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: lo, Lowe
* Rhymes: -əʊ

#### Verb

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
* (intransitive) To moo.
    The cattle were lowing.
** 1726, Jonathan Swift, “The Lamentations of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig”, in Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Brobdingnag:In peals of thunder now she roars--and now / She gently whimpers like a lowing cow
** 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard :The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
** 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107:It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”).
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at leye, light.

#### Alternative forms

* lowe

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /loʊ/

#### Noun

low (plural lows)
* (countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
** 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 85:She was, as one of them expressed himself, in a light low (bright flame) when they observed a king's ship, with her colours up, heave in sight from behind the cape. The guns of the burning vessel discharged themselves […]
** 1843, John Wilson, The Noctes Ambrosianœ of "Blackwood"., page 478:A boy fell aff his chair a' in a low, for the discharge had set him on fire […]
** 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Yorke (continued)”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 76:[…] and he was sure to light of a verse blazing wi' a blue brimstone low that set all straight.
** 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 19:And methought the whole world was lighted in a lowe, and with a great cry I awoke out of the dream.

##### Translations
#### Verb

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
* (UK, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
** 1724 (edition of 1788), Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany, page 23:
    Driest wood will eithest low,
** 1785, Robert Burns, The Jolly Beggars:They scarcely left to co'er their fuds, To quench their lowan drouth.
** 1870, Edward Peacock, Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire: A Novel, page 197:[…] in every crevice; and each individual brick shone and “lowed” with the intense heat. “As I am a Christian man,” thought he, “this is verily the mouth of the pit; and I am lost — lost for ever, for —”
** 1894, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Raiders, page 82:Sand, striking a light with his flint and steel, and transferring the flame when it lowed up to the bowl of his tiny elf's pipe, so small that it just let in the top of his little finger as he settled the tobacco in it as it began to burn.
** 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, Works, page 382:The next I saw, James parried a thrust so nearly that I thought him killed; and it lowed up in my mind that this was the girl's father, and in a manner almost my own, and I drew and ran in to sever them.

### Etymology 5

From Old English hlāw, hlǣw (“burial mound”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw. Obsolete by the 19th century, survives in toponymy as -low.

#### Alternative forms

* lawe

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /loʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: lo, Lowe
* Rhymes: -əʊ

#### Noun

low (plural lows)
* (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
** 1686, Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire:A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains.
* (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
** 1847, Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems:And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low.

### Etymology 6

Aphetic form of allow.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA: /laʊ/
* Rhymes: -aʊ

#### Verb

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)
* Alternative form of 'low

### Anagrams

* OWL, WoL, owl

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English low.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lōu
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lōu
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄡ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lou
*** Wade–Giles: lou$^1$
*** Yale: lōu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhou
*** Palladius: лоу (lou)
*** Sinological IPA : /loʊ̯⁵⁵/

### Adjective

low
* (slang) Of low stature; uncivilized; uncouth.
    很low的行為／很low的行为 ― hěn low de xíngwèi ― highly uncivilized behavior

## Manx
### Etymology

Borrowed from English allow.

### Verb

low (verbal noun lowal, past participle lowit)
* to allow, permit
* to justify

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “allow, permit”): meelow, neulow