As a Hindi name
लू · noun · feminine
गरमी के दिनों की तपी हुई हवा । गरम हवा का लपट या झोंका । तप्त वायु — Śabdasāgara
लू · lū · s.f.
A hot wind ( = lūh, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 966
Cited formation "लू" is ल + -ऊ: ल means "the twenty-eighth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ऊ forms 'belonging to', 'tending to' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(8) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
cutting, dividing &c., Sch. (cf. eka-lū).
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. lū cl. 9. P. Ā. (Dhātup. xxxi, 13) lunāti, lunīte (Ved. also lunoti pf. lulāva, Kathās.; 2. sg. lulavitha, Pāṇ. vi, 1, 196, Sch.; 2. pl. luluvidhve or ˚viḍhve, ib. viii, 3, 79, Sch.; aor. alāvīt, alaviṣṭa Gr.; fut. lavitā, laviṣyati, ˚te, ib.; inf. lavitum, ib.; ind.p. lūtvā, ib.; -lāvam, Kāv.), to cut, sever, divide, pluck, reap, gather, TBr. &c. &c.; to cut off, destroy, annihilate, Kāv.; Rājat. : Pass. lūyate (aor. alāvi), to be cut Gr.: Caus. lāvayati (aor. alīlavat, ˚vata), to cause to cut Gr.: Desid. of Caus. lilāvayiṣati, ib. : Desid. lulūṣati, ˚te, ib. : Intens. lolūyate, loloti, ib. : Desid. of Intens. lolūyiṣate (ind.p. ˚yam), ib.
lū [cf. Gk. λύω; Lat. so-luo, solvo; Goth. fra-liusan; Germ. vir-lisosan, ver-lieren; Angl.Sax. for-leósan; Eng. lose.]
2. lū mfn. cutting, dividing &c., Pāṇ. vi, 4, 83, Sch. (cf. eka-lū).
lū 9 U. (lunāti, lunīte, lūna; caus. lāvayati-te; desid., lulūṣati-te) 1 To cut, lop, clip, sever, divide, pluck, reap, gather (flowers &c.); śarāsanajyāmalunād biḍaujasaḥ R. 3. 59; 7. 45, 12. 43; purīmavaskaṃda lunīhi naṃdanaṃ Śi. 1. 51; krīḍaṃti kākairiva lūtapakṣaiḥ Pt. 1. 187; Ku. 3. 61; Bk. 9. 89. 2 To cut off, destroy completely, annihilate; lokānalāvīdvījitāṃśca tasya Bk. 2. 53. -WITH ā to pluck (gently); Ku. 2. 41. — vipra to cut, lop or pluck off; U. 3. 5.
lū (lū) r. 9th cl. (lunāti lunīte) To cut.
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