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لوگ

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Baluchi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Iranian *lōka. Cognate with Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫓𐫇𐫃 (lwg).

Noun

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لوگ (log)

  1. house
  2. home

See also

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोक (loka).[1] Doublet of لوک (lok). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi لوگ (log).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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لوگ (logm (Hindi spelling लोग)

  1. (in the plural) people
  2. (by extension) folk; family
  3. (by extension) class, caste
  4. (women's speech, rustic) man, husband
    • 1868, پیارے لال آشوب دہلوی [Piyare Lal Ashoob Dehlvi], رُسُومِ ہِنْد [rusūm-i hind, The Traditions of Hindustan]‎[1], page 48:
      تیرا لوگ پردیس گیا ھے
      terā log pardes gayā hai
      Your man has gone abroad

Declension

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    Declension of لوگ
singular plural
direct لوگ (log) لوگ (log)
oblique لوگ (log) لوگوں (logõ)
vocative لوگ (log) (logo)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lōká¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 648
  2. ^ لوگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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  • لوگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “لوگ”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]