# ilu
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪluː/

### Phrase

ilu
* (slang) Abbreviation of I love you.

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈilu/ [ˈʔɪlʊ]
* Hyphenation: i‧lu

### Noun

ílu m
* twig

#### References

* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Akkadian
### Pronunciation

* (Old Babylonian) IPA: /ˈi.lu/

### Noun

ilu m (ilu)
* Alternative form of ilum

## Big Nambas
### Etymology

Related to Maori ruaki, Malay luah and Fijian lua

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ilu/

### Verb

ilu
* to vomit

### References

* Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ilo, further origin unknown. Cognates include Finnish ilo and Votic ilo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈilu/, [ˈilu]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ilu
* Hyphenation: i‧lu

### Noun

ilu (genitive ilu, partitive ilu)
* beauty, splendor
** Aesthetically pleasing properties and features (appearance, color, shape etc.)
    Ilu on vaataja silmades. ― Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
    Synonym: kaunidus
** An ornament or decoration for sth/sb.
    Järv küla iluks, tüdruk maja iluks. (Estonian proverb)A lake decorates the village, a girl decorates the household.(literally, “A lake for the beauty of the village, a girl for the beauty of the house.”)
    Habe vanataadi ilu. (Estonian proverb)An old man's pride is his beard.(literally, “A beard is the old man's beauty.”)
    Synonym: ehe
* (archaic, obsolete) joy, delight, happiness, glee
    Pill tuleb pika ilu peale. (Estonian proverb)What goes around, comes around.(literally, “The crying comes after a long period of joy.”)
** 1981, Marie Under, “Porkuni preili”, in Paul Rummo, editor, Mu süda laulab [My Heart is Singing] (poetry), Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, page 260:Nad pidasid ilu, see oligi pulm, / need kaks sääl kaelastikku.They were having fun, this was a wedding, / those two yonder with hands around each other's necks.

#### Synonyms

* (visually pleasing properties): kaunidus
* (decoration for sth/sb): ehe

#### Derived terms

* iludus
* iluleja
* ilulemine
* ilustaja
* ilustamine
* ilustis
* ilustus
* ilutsemine
* ilutus
* ilus
* ilutu
* ilulema
* ilustama
* ilutsema
* ilusalt
* ilusasti
* ilusti

#### Compounds

* pulmailu
* silmailu
* iluaed
* iluaednik
* iluaiandus
* iluasi
* iluasjake
* ilubränd
* ilueedi
* iluese
* iluideaal
* ilujanu
* ilujumalanna
* ilukapsas
* ilukaup
* ilukiri
* ilukirjandus
* ilukirjanduskeel
* ilukirjanduslik
* ilukirjandusteos
* ilukirjandustõlge
* ilukirjanik
* ilukirurg
* ilukirurgia
* ilukosmeetika
* ilukrooge
* ilukõla
* ilukõne
* ilukõneleja
* ilukõneline
* ilukõnelisus
* iluköide
* ilulugeja
* ilulugema
* ilulugemine
* ilumeel
* ilumuru
* ilumõiste
* ilunael
* ilunõel
* ilunõges
* ilunõue
* ilunööp
* iluoperatsioon
* ilupaber
* ilupakend
* ilupannal
* ilupealis
* ilupildistik
* ilupilt
* ilupiste
* iluprotseduur
* ilupuu
* ilupõõsas
* iluravi
* iluraviarst
* iluravija
* iluravimask
* iluravivahend
* ilurätik
* ilusalong
* ilusüstid
* ilutaim
* iluteenindus
* ilutoode
* ilutulestik
* ilutuli
* ilutuvi
* ilutõug
* iluuisud
* iluuisutaja
* iluuisutama
* iluuisutamine
* iluvidin
* iluviga
* iluvõimleja
* iluvõimlema
* iluvõimlemine
* iluvõre
* iluvärav
* iluõmblus
* iluümbrik
* kääbusilupuu
* meesiluuisutaja
* naisiluuisutaja
* tõlkeilukirjandus

### References

* ilu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Francisco León Zoque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hilo.

### Noun

ilu
* thread

### References

* Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 62

## Ido
### Alternative forms

* il

### Etymology

Borrowed from French il, from Vulgar Latin *illī, which is related to Classical Latin ille, +‎ -u (“denoting a person”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈi.lu/

### Pronoun

ilu (in the plural ili)
* he, him

#### Derived terms

* ili (“they, them”) (masculine)

#### Related terms

* lu (“he, him, she, her, it, that”)
* elu (“she, her”) (feminine)
* olu (“it”) (neuter)

### See also

* The possessive plurals are seldom used.
* The shortened forms are preferred.
* The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

## Inuktitut
### Noun

ilu
* Latin spelling of ᐃᓗ (ilo)

## Lamaholot
### Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qizuR. Compare Ibaloi ilol, Javanese idu, Karao ilol, and Pangasinan ilol.

### Noun

ilu
* (anatomy) saliva

## Maltese
### Etymology

Originally an alternative form of lilu (“to him”), etc., pronominal forms of Arabic لَ (la, “to, for”), إلَى (ʔilā, “to, towards”). The adverbial construction exists in several Arabic dialects; compare e.g. North Levantine Arabic إلي يومين ما نمت (ʔili yawmayn ma nimt, “I haven’t slept in two days”). The postpositional use is derived therefrom.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiː.lu/

### Adverb

ilu
* Expresses the time that something has been going on; takes personal suffixes according to subject of the phrase and is followed by a specification of time; (equivalent to English) for; in
    Ili jumejn ma norqod.I haven’t slept in two days.(literally, “To me two days I don’t sleep.”)
    Xmun ilu seba’ xhur fil-ħabs.Simon has been in jail for seven months.(literally, “Simon to him seven months in jail.”)

#### Usage notes

* As above, the construction involves a verb in the present tense or a nominal sentence. If negated, the verb does not take the suffix -x.

#### Inflection
### Postposition

ilu
* ago
    Wasalna hawn jumejn ilu. ― We arrived here two days ago.

#### Usage notes

* In this use the form is always ilu regardless of the subject.

#### Related terms

* lejn
* lil

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈiluː/

### Noun

ilu
* accusative/genitive singular of illu

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈi.lu/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ilu
* Syllabification: i‧lu

### Pronoun

ilu
* inflection of ile:
** masculine personal nominative/accusative/vocative
** genitive/dative/locative

## Sabu
### Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qizuR. Compare Ibaloi ilol, Javanese idu, Karao ilol, and Pangasinan ilol.

### Noun

ilu
* (anatomy) saliva

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈilu/ [ˈi.lu]
* Rhymes: -ilu
* Syllabification: i‧lu

### Noun

ilu f (uncountable)
* (colloquial) Clipping of ilusión

## Umbundu
### Noun

ilu (needs class)
* sky

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* ùlú

### Etymology 1

ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ lú (“to intermingle, to mix, to come together”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ì.lú/

#### Noun

ìlú
* (historical) city state; kingdom
* town; city
* country
* establishment
* (idiomatic, in the plural) chiefs (in their position as representatives of the people of the town)
    Synonyms: olóyè, ìjòyè, èèyàn

##### Derived terms

* aráàlú (“townspeople”)
* olóṣèlú (“politician”)
* olú-ìlú (“capital”)
* onílùú (“of a city”)
* ọmọ onílùú (“citizen”)
* ìlú ńlá (“city”)
* ìlúmoyè (“Yoruba chief”)
* ìṣèlú (“politics”)
* òṣèlú (“politician/politics”)

### Etymology 2

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ lù (“to beat, to hit”), literally “that which is beaten”.

#### Alternative forms

* ùlù

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ì.lù/

#### Noun

ìlù
* (music) percussion instruments (in particular) drums