ilu

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/
• Hyphenation: i‧lu

ílu m 

1. twig

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

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.lu/

ilu m (ilu)

1. Alternative form of ilum

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈilu/, [ˈilu]

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• Rhymes: -ilu
• Hyphenation: i‧lu

ilu (genitive ilu, partitive ilu)

1. beauty, splendor
   1. Aesthetically pleasing properties and features (appearance, color, shape etc.)

      Ilu on vaataja silmades. ― Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

      Synonym: kaunidus

   2. 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

2. (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, Under, Marie, “Porkuni preili”, in Rummo, Paul, 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.

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

• ilu in Sõnaveeb

Borrowed from Spanish hilo.

ilu

1. thread

• 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

• il

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.lu/

ilu (in the plural ili)

1. he, him

• ili (“they, them”) (masculine)

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

ilu

1. Latin spelling of ᐃᓗ (ilo)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.lu/

ilu

1. 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.”)

• 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.

ilu

1. ago

   Wasalna hawn jumejn ilu.

   We arrived here two days ago.

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈiluː/

ilu

1. accusative/genitive singular of illu

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.lu/

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• Rhymes: -ilu
• Syllabification: i‧lu

ilu

1. inflection of ile:
   1. masculine personal nominative/accusative/vocative
   2. genitive/dative/locative

ilu f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of ilusión

ilu (needs class)

1. sky

• ùlú

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

• IPA^(key): /ì.lú/

ìlú

1. (historical) city state; kingdom
2. town; city
3. country
4. establishment
5. (idiomatic, in the plural) chiefs (in their position as representatives of the people of the town)

   Synonyms: olóyè, ìjòyè, èèyàn

Àwọn onílù tó fi ìlù wọn sílẹ̀ láti lọ sinmi.

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

• ùlù

• IPA^(key): /ì.lù/

ìlù

1. (music) percussion instruments (in particular) drums