luku

• IPA^(key): [ˈluku]

luku

1. genitive/dative/vocative/locative singular of luk

From Proto-Finnic *luku. Equivalent to lukea (“to read, count”) +‎ -u.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluku/, [ˈluku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧ku

luku

1. number, count, quantity
2. chapter (one of the main section into which the text of a book is divided; one of the main part in a legal statute)

   Se on ihan oma lukunsa.

   It's another (chapter of a) story of its own.

3. (law) chapter (division in a legal statute)
4. (in compounds) reading

   lukutaito ― ability to read (literacy)

5. (grammar) number
6. together with a year, used to indicate decade, century or sometimes even millennium

   1920-luvulla - in the 20s, in the 1920s

   1600-luku - the 17th Century (1600–1699)

• (number): See usage notes under numero.
• (chapter): luku is one of the divisions in a Finnish act (laki). The core division is pykälä, which is contained even in the shortest acts;[1] large statutes may have higher divisions (parts and chapters).[2] The hierarchy of the divisions goes, and their names are by convention translated by the Ministry of Justice of Finland, as follows:

• osa (“part”)
  • luku (“chapter”)
    • pykälä (“section”)
      • momentti (“subsection”)
        • kohta (“paragraph”)
          • alakohta (“subparagraph”)

• (reading): lukeminen

• adjectives: lukuisa, luvuton
• verbs: ottaa luku, ottaa lukua

• laki
• asetus
• pykälä
• momentti
• oikeus

• kulu, ulku

From Proto-Finnic *luku, equivalent to lukkia (“to read; to count”) +‎ -u. Cognates include Finnish luku and Veps lugu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈluku/, [ˈɫuku]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈluku/, [ˈɫuɡ̊u]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Hyphenation: lu‧ku

luku

1. number, amount
2. pace, rhythm
3. incantation, spell
4. (in compounds) reading
5. A unit of measure equal to five herrings.

   Miä möin kaks lukkua. ― I sold ten herrings. (literally, “I sold twice five herrings.”)

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 22
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 278

luku (Raguileo spelling)

1. (anatomy) knee

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ku/
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification: lu‧ku

luku m inan

1. genitive/locative/vocative singular of luk

luku (Cyrillic spelling луку)

1. dative/locative singular of luk

luku (Cyrillic spelling луку)

1. accusative singular of luka

• IPA^(key): [ˈluku]

luku

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of luk

From English look.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ku/

luku

1. To look (at).

• loekoe

From Proto-Finnic *luku.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈluku/, [ˈɫuku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Hyphenation: lu‧ku

luku

1. spell, incantation
2. read, something to read
3. counting rhyme

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “luku”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn